In Re Marriage of Pittman

PRESIDING JUSTICE RARICK

delivered the opinion of the court:

Husband, Paul C. Pittman, appeals from the judgment of the circuit court of Madison County pertaining to the distribution of the parties’ property in the second half of their bifurcated dissolution of marriage proceedings.

Paul and M. Louise Pittman were married in August of 1980. Husband was then 62 and wife 54. He worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, while she worked at Granite City Steel. Wife, however, gave up her job of 30 years shortly after the parties’ marriage. During 1983 and 1984, the parties separated for…