Berger v. Berger

HOWE, Justice:

Defendant, Philip Herman Berger, appeals from the property division made in this divorce action. He seeks either a new trial or a redistribution of the marital estate.

When the Bergers were married in 1969, plaintiff, Kathleen Marie Berger, was a thirty-two-year-old legal secretary with a high school diploma. Defendant was twenty-eight years old, worked as a television repairman, and had completed three years toward a degree in electrical engineering. Neither brought assets of substantial value into the marriage, except that Mrs. Berger had a $2,000 equity in a house. He returned…