In Re Marriage of Millar

GIVAN, Justice.

In an opinion reported at 581 N.E.2d 986, the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded this case on the issue of whether the trial court’s order for payment was a “maintenance order or an order for property settlement.”

Chief Judge Ratliff wrote an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part in which he states that the amount awarded was half of the determined value of the marital estate and thus it clearly was a property settlement award and not a maintenance award, citing Coster v. Coster (1983), Ind.App., 452 N.E.2d 397.

We agree with Judge Ratliff in his observation and…