David v. David

Stephen Frank David, Jr. (“husband”) seeks review of the distribution of marital assets.in the final judgment terminating his marriage to Gail David (“wife”). Specifically, he urges that the trial judge erred in failing to extract the special equity awards before equitably dividing the marital property.

The court below valued the parties’ lawn business at $45,000.00 and determined that the husband had a special equity of $7,500.00 in the business. The court also ruled that the business should be allocated as property of the husband in the scheme of equitable distribution. Oddly, however, he…