Brooks v. Brooks

Shaw, Judge:

This is a domestic relations action. Appellant wife, Joan Tumbleston Brooks, appeals the family court’s division of the marital property awarding 35% to her and 65% to respondent husband, William Edward Brooks. We affirm as modified.

This court, in domestic relations actions, may find facts according to its own view of the preponderance of the evidence. Walker v. Frericks, 285 S. C. 139, 328 S. E. (2d) 126 (Ct. App. 1985).

These parties were married in 1960. Both of their children are now emancipated. The wife brought an. action for separate maintenance and support in 1983; however,…