In re the Marriage of Tennant

CROW, Presiding Judge.

Karl Edmond Tennant (“Karl”) appeals from a decree dissolving his marriage to Carolyn Dean Tennant (“Carolyn”), complaining that the trial court erred in (1) dividing the marital real estate situated in Missouri, and (2) ordering Karl to pay Carolyn maintenance.

The parties were married September 2, 1957.1 The union produced two children, both of whom were emancipated when Karl and Carolyn separated in August, 1985.

At time of trial the parties owned, as marital property, 251 acres of rural land in Missouri. It consisted of 40 acres in Butler County, 111 acres in Wayne…