Marriage of Brown v. Brown

KELLEY, Justice.

Beverly J. Brown, respondent in this action for dissolution of marriage, appeals from an order of the district court awarding certain property to the petitioner Earl F. Brown. The principal issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in distributing the parties’ homestead according to its apportionment of the increase in equity between the marital and nonmarital interests. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

In Schmitz v. Schmitz, 309 N.W.2d 748 (Minn.1981), we approved the formula by which a trial court might correctly apportion the increase in equity between marital…