In Re the Marriage of Snyder

The wife appeals from the property distribution in this dissolution of marriage. We affirm the order of the Gallatin County District Court.

The issues presented on appeal are:

1. Did the District Court erroneously fail to include a promissory note valued at $78,121 as part of the marital estate?

2. Should the District Court have awarded the wife either a one-half interest in the family home or its equivalent in cash?

The parties married late in life. Their marriage was dissolved six years later, in 1984, when the husband was sixty-nine years of age and the wife was sixty. Both parties worked…