Marriage of Roden v. Roden

OPINION

KLEINSCHMIDT, Presiding Judge.

When Mark and Debra Roden met in 1987, he was a grocery store manager and she was a school teacher. Within a year after they met, Mark entered into a franchise agreement to operate a Subway sandwich shop in Tempe. Debra helped inventory the restaurant while the sale was pending, and after the sale closed, she worked in the store during the evenings. Mark formed a corporation, Desert Subway, Inc., for the purpose of operating his franchise business, which he planned to expand.

In June of 1988, the couple began living together. By that time, Mark had opened…