Baselt v. Baselt

This is a divorce action. The husband appeals from a decree awarding the wife a divorce and property of a value in excess of eleven thousand dollars and awarding the husband two life insurance policies, each in the amount of one thousand dollars but with no cash surrender value, a 1938 De Soto sedan, and all interest in a government retirement pension which will pay him $1,280 a year when and if he attains the age of sixty-two. (He was fifty-five at the time of the trial.)

A somewhat unusual situation existed with reference to the property awarded to the wife. The community, for the purpose of…