Cavallaro v. Cavallaro, WD
| Decision Date | 04 August 1981 |
| Docket Number | No. WD,WD |
| Citation | 620 S.W.2d 420 |
| Parties | Marlene J. CAVALLARO, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Samuel S. CAVALLARO, Respondent-Appellant. 32024. |
| Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Glenn E. Bradford, C. Michael Mattix, Happy, House, Cooling, Bradford & Irmen, Kansas City, for respondent-appellant.
Harold E. Johnson, Kansas City, for petitioner-respondent.
Before KENNEDY, P. J., and SHANGLER and SOMERVILLE, JJ.
An appeal was taken by the husband from a decree entered in a dissolution of marriage proceeding.
One point is posited by the husband on appeal: "The trial court erred in its entry of final judgment because the trial court failed to ascribe value to the marital property adjudged to each spouse." This point is raised notwithstanding a record containing evidence, which it is assumed the trial court took into account, enabling it to determine the value of the marital property. Moreover, the husband makes no charge that the division of the marital property was unjust or that rights of the respective spouses in certain property were not adjudicated.
The husband cites Wilhoit v. Wilhoit, 599 S.W.2d 74 (Mo.App.1980), and Hopkins v. Hopkins, 597 S.W.2d 702 (Mo.App.1980), in support of his position that by virtue of Section 452.330, RSMo 1978, a decree of dissolution which fails to assign value to the marital property which is divided does not attain the status of a final judgment. Although not cited by the husband, Salisbury v. Salisbury, 614 S.W.2d 558 (Mo.App.1981); Wansing v. Wansing, 612 S.W.2d 55 (Mo.App.1981), and Fields v. Fields, 584 S.W.2d 163 (Mo.App.1979), fall into the same general decisional pattern. The contextual setting of each of the decisions heretofore mentioned should not be ignored in a blind rush to rely upon them as authority for sustaining the husband's single point on appeal. In each of said cases insofar, as here relevant, the respective appellants were either questioning the failure of the trial court to distinguish between marital and nonmarital property in conjunction with a failure to assign values thereto, Salisbury v. Salisbury, 614 S.W.2d at 559, and Fields v. Fields, 584 S.W.2d at 166, attacking the division of marital property on the grounds that it was unjust, Wansing v. Wansing, 612 S.W.2d at 56, and Hopkins v. Hopkins, 597 S.W.2d at 709, or asserting a failure on the part of the trial court to adjudicate the rights of the respective spouses in certain property, Wilhoit v. Wilhoit, 599 S.W.2d at 76. In the case at bar the lone point raised by the husband neither seeks review of the division of marital property on the grounds that it was unjust nor claims the trial court failed to adjudicate the rights of the respective spouses in certain property. Reduced to basics, the husband's single point is nothing more than an abstract complaint as to the manner in which the trial court fashioned its decree and raises no...
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