Bagwell v. Bagwell

John I. Purtle, Justice.

This appeal challenges the Chancellor’s division of marital and nonmarital property in a divorce suit. The appellant husband claims the division violated Ark. Stat. Ann. § 34-1214 (Act 705 of 1979) by granting an unequal division of marital property and by awarding the wife possession of the home and a sizeable portion of the husband’s non marital property.

This is a second marriage of Marvin and Idell Bagwell. The parties are in their mid-sixties. Both are on Social Security. He is unemployable for health reasons and she is an unemployed nurse. They originally married…