In re the Marriage of Watters

The wife appeals from the dissolution of marriage decree. She assigns as error the provision in the decree suspending husband’s obligation to make child support payments during the time husband is paying off the wife’s lien against real property awarded to the husband. The lien is $80,000.

The husband claims that the wife is getting most of the family assets by the award of the $80,000 lien. The trial court apparently found the value of the real property to be as testified to by the witness Brunton, a real estate appraiser. Using Brunton’s appraisals, the award of $80,000 to the wife was…