Marriage of Heilman v. Heilman

ROBERTSON, Judge.

This is an appeal by the wife of a decree of dissolution. The trial court’s judgment, in addition to dividing the couple’s property and awarding temporary maintenance to the wife, set aside as the husband’s separate property his stock in a family laundry business. On the wife’s appeal, the Western District concluded that the termination of maintenance was not justified, and that the “source of funds rule,” announced by this Court in Hoffmann v. Hoffmann, 676 S.W.2d 817 (Mo. banc 1984), required the stock to be characterized as marital. We granted transfer to consider whether…