Snowden v. Alexander-Snowden

SEARS, Presiding Justice.

We granted an application for discretionary appeal filed by the appellant, James Snowden, to consider whether the trial court erred in its award of the parties’ marital home in this divorce action. Because we conclude that the trial court erred in classifying the entire interest in the home as non-marital property and in awarding it to the appellee, Gwendolyn Alexander-Snowden, we reverse.

In this State, trial courts must apply the “source of the funds” rule when equitably dividing a home that one of the parties brought to the marriage. Under this rule, a trial court…