Jackson v. Jackson

The defendant wife appeals those aspects of a divorce judgment dealing with disposition of property, claiming evidentiary error and an unsupportable property division. There is no claim of prejudice from an unexplained delay of some seven months between hearing and findings, although, as we have pointed out previously, such delays reflect most seriously upon our judicial system as a whole.

The parties were married some twenty years. They had two children, one of whom was a 16 year old minor at time of hearing. The minor son had alcohol and marijuana problems and needed medical treatment.…