In the Matter of Marriage of Crislip and Crislip

Wife appeals from the property division portions of the judgment in this dissolution case. She contends that the trial court erred by failing to award her one-half of the amount by which the value of husband’s pension and related funds increased during the marriage. The court distinguished between the increased value attributable to new investment and that attributable to growth in pre-marital investment, ignored the post-separation increased value of the funds and adjusted the property division to reflect husband’s greater age. On de novo review, we conclude that the court should not have…