Fobar v. Vonderahe

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

BOEHM, Justice.

In this marriage dissolution case, the Court of Appeals found the trial court abused its discretion and instructed the trial court to deviate from a 50-50 property division to the extent necessary to re-fleet the value of one spouse's inherited and non-commingled interest in property. Fobar v. Vonderahe, 756 N.E.2d 512, 523 (Ind.Ct.App.2001). We hold that a trial court's discretion in dividing property in a dissolution is to be reviewed by considering the division as a whole, not item by item. So viewed, the trial court's 50-50 division was within its…