In re the Marriage of Horvath

In this dissolution of marriage proceeding, husband appeals from the court’s division of the marital assets.

Husband and wife, aged 45 and 44 respectively, had been married 21 years at the time of the hearing below. The court awarded custody of the parties’ two children, aged 14 and 12, to wife. Wife is in good health, but husband is a triplegic and confined to a wheelchair as a result of contracting multiple sclerosis, a progressively debilitating terminal illness about which little is known and for which there is no cure.

Wife has worked as a librarian throughout the marriage and now earns…