Blair v. Blair

This appeal involves a dispute over whether an award to defendant of $25,000 as a property distribution, plus $5,000 for attorney’s fees, is an abuse of discretion. Defendant-wife claims that the total amount of money awarded to her represents only 20% of the marital assets, a decidedly unjust result given the evidence of battering she endured over the course of this four year marriage.

We need not reach the issue of abuse of discretion, because the oral findings of fact issued extemporaneously at the conclusion of the trial are sufficiently ambiguous and incomplete to warrant another hearing…