Stockdale v. Stockdale

BURNETT, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dividing property in a divorce proceeding. We are asked to decide two issues. First, did the magistrate err in refusing to recognize an oral or informal change (“transmutation”) of the wife’s separate real property into community property during the marriage? Second, did the magistrate abuse her discretion by making an unequal division of community property favoring the wife? On appeal to the district court, the judgment was affirmed. In this appeal, we affirm in part, but vacate a portion of the judgment and remand for reconsideration of the…