Dorton v. Dorton

WEBB, Judge.

Defendant challenges the trial court’s findings and conclusions in sixteen questions presented on appeal. We vacate the judgment and remand the cause for a new hearing on equitable distribution due to the errors discussed below. In all fairness to the trial court we note that it did not have the benefit at the time judgment was entered of much of the case law on equitable distribution.

The trial court must identify the property owned, evaluate it, and order its distribution in an equitable distribution action pursuant to G.S. 50-20. Capps v. Capps, 69 N.C. App. 755, 318 S.E. 2d 346…