Kelley v. Kelley

ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

Following an ore tenus proceeding in this divorce case, the trial court, inter alia, awarded the husband, Royce Jackson Kelley, a house and property jointly owned by the parties and awarded the wife, Barbara Ann Kelley, a $14,700 judgment against the husband for her interest in the property.

The husband’s sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court committed an abuse of discretion. He argues that the $14,700 award to the wife “virtually consumed all of the approximately $15,000 equity in the house.”

We first note that, when evidence is presented ore tenus, the…