Cochran v. Cochran

CROW, Presiding Judge.

By a decree filed November 26,1991, the trial court dissolved the eleven-year marriage of Jackie A. Cochran and Samuel E. Cochran. Sam1 appeals, asserting the trial court erred in (1) awarding Jackie a $15,040 lien on real estate set apart to him as his nonmarital property, and (2) denying his prayer for maintenance.

Because the trial court erroneously classified some nonmarital property as marital and some marital property as nonmarital, we reverse the decree in part and remand for redetermination of certain issues, spelled out infra.

We begin with the real estate.

In 1978…