In re the Marriage of Sites

The former husband appeals from the property division and support provisions of a decree dissolving a nine-year marriage. The decree awarded custody of the couple’s one minor child to husband and spousal support of $200 per month to wife for five years, divided the property into roughly equal portions, and ordered husband to assume nearly all the family debts of over $6,000. No child support was awarded. To equalize the property division, the trial court ordered the sale of the residence, in which the parties had an equity of approximately $19,000; wife was to receive $5,000 from the sale as…