In re the Marriage of Haguewood

CAMPBELL, J. PRO TEMPORE

The wife appeals from the decree dissolving the parties’ marriage, assigning as error the trial court’s award of spousal support in lieu of an equal division of property. She also claims the court erred in its valuation of the family business. The parties were married for 24 years. Their children are grown and emancipated. The principal marital asset is the family business, a wheat farming operation purchased during the marriage, in 1963, from the husband’s mother for $127,000. The tillable acreage was doubled in 1977 through the purchase of adjoining land for $225,000.