Husband T.N.S. v. Wife A.M.S.

HERRMANN, Chief Justice:

The petitioner-husband appeals from a property division by the Family Court ancillary to a decree divorcing the parties. The husband disputes the Court’s characterization of certain property as “marital property” under 13 Del.C. § 1513, * and contends that the Court’s division of the property was inequitable.

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When the parties were married in 1961, the husband had about $20,000 in savings which he held in his own name. After approximately seven years of marriage, in an effort “to please” his wife, the husband invested these funds in certificates of deposit and a savings…