Hickman v. Hickman

LEHAN, Judge.

In this dissolution of marriage case we reverse the portion of the final judgment which describes equitable distributions to the parties.

The trial court erred in failing to include among the marital assets considered for equitable distribution a certain portion of the proceeds from the sale of land which had been purchased by the husband three months before the beginning of the nearly 20 year marriage and had been sold in 1984 at a substantial profit. That portion should have been the amount of the enhancement in value of the land during the marriage attributable to the marital…