Harmon v. Harmon

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

Timothy Lane Harmon appeals from the order entered in his divorce from Brenda Harmon, challenging the trial court’s division of the parties’ marital and nonmarital property. “The purpose behind the doctrine of equitable division of marital property is ‘to assure that property accumulated during the marriage be fairly distributed between the parties.’ [Cit.]” Payson v. Payson, 274 Ga. 231, 232 (1) (552 SE2d 839) (2001). “In equitable actions for divorce, the [fact-finder] possesses broad discretion to distribute marital property to assure that property accumulated…