In Re Marriage of Heinemann

DONIELSON, Judge.

Petitioner husband appeals from the economic provisions of the parties’ dissolution decree, contending that the child support award and the property division were inequitable. We modify both the property division and the child support award.

Our review of this equitable proceeding is de novo. Iowa R.App.P. 4.

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The fourteen-year marriage of Lowell and Nancy Heinemann was dissolved by a decree entered on May 5, 1980. The decree awarded custody of the parties’ four minor children to the respondent wife, as well as child support in the amount of $800 per month (to be reduced by…