In Re Marriage of Mouw

SACKETT, Presiding Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Loren Jay Mouw challenges the equity of an alimony award following his fifteen-year marriage when both he and his former wife, respondent-appellee Dawn Renae Mouw, advanced their educations. We affirm as modified.

Loren and Dawn married in 1980. At the time, Loren was nineteen and a carpenter. Dawn was eighteen and a high school graduate. By the time the marriage had ended, the couple had three children; Loren was a neurosurgeon; and Dawn had a bachelor’s degree and had nearly completed her master’s degree. She intended to get a doctorate degree in…