Ruml v. Ruml

This is an appeal by a husband, David J. Ruml (husband), from a judgment of divorce nisi. We consider this appeal together with the husband’s appeal from two contempt judgments entered during the pendency of the divorce proceedings.

In connection with the divorce judgment, the husband’s primary contention is that the trial judge lacked the power to transfer to the wife all of the corpus and accumulated income in an inter vivas trust, of which the husband is neither a trustee nor beneficiary, because the wife as a former spouse was no longer a beneficiary, and the trustees were not made parties…