In Re Marriage of Blunda

The petitioner, Sandra A. Blunda, appeals from the judgment of dissolution of her marriage to the respondent, Frank S. Blunda, challenging the trial court’s distribution of marital assets along with its findings that the petitioner dissipated marital assets and that her execution of a personal guarantee transmuted a portion of a nonmarital business into marital property. The respondent cross-appeals.

A substantial amount of evidence and testimony was presented in the trial court. However, only those facts necessary to an understanding of this court’s decision will be set forth, and many of the…