In re the Dissolution of the Marriage of Hardenburger

This is an appeal by the wife from the decree dissolving the marriage of the parties. She challenges the division of property and the failure of the trial court to award attorney fees.

Married at 47, this 56-year-old couple had no issue of this marriage. Both had been married previously —she twice, he thrice. The principal item in controversy is the award to the husband of sole ownership of a trust deed in an eight-plex apartment having a value of $119,000.

The husband was a successful builder; the wife had but a limited earning capacity. During the early years of the marriage she had worked as…