McGill v. McGill

Clarke, Justice.

The parties were divorced in February 1980, following a jury trial. The marital home was owned in equal undivided interest by the husband and wife. When the jury verdict was returned, it included an alimony award to the husband. He was given the wife’s one-half undivided interest to the home; however, the jury qualified this award by limiting the interest to the husband’s lifetime with remainder over to his heirs. The trial judge, in framing his final judgment and decree, construed the heirs of the husband to mean the three children of the parties. Only one of these children…