Cable v. Cable

PARKER, Judge.

In her sole assignment of error on appeal, plaintiff contends the trial court erred in deciding that the parties’ homeplace was not marital property. Plaintiff does not contend that the 2.3 acre lot itself is not defendant’s separate property. Rather, she contends that because she made substantial contributions to the improvement of defendant’s separate property, that the improvement (the house itself) is marital property. Defendant counters this argument by asserting that under the language of G.S. 50-20(c)(8), the trial judge can consider any improvements made by the plaintiff…