Mattingly v. Mattingly

J. ED TEASE, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the former wife of the trial court’s denial of her petition to sell a jointly owned residence for division of proceeds, this residence being the subject of a property settlement award in the 1980 decree of the divorce between the parties.

The 1980 divorce decree stated in pertinent part as follows:

“The Plaintiff [appellant] shall be, and is hereby, awarded the possession of the dwelling house owned by the parties during the minority of the minor child, said right to possession of said premises to cease upon said child’s finishing high *553scho…