Harold M. Hull v. Mary J. Hull

Petitioner husband, Harold M. Hull, commenced an action to dissolve his marriage to Mary J. Hull and for orders respecting maintenance and for division of marital property. As the issues were joined, irretrievable breakdown of the marriage was not contested but maintenance and property matters were the subjects of extensive evidence and dispute. From the judgment ultimately rendered, the husband appeals the award of maintenance to the wife and takes issue with the failure of the court to apportion income tax liability in respect to 1977 earnings. The wife appeals the adjudication of non-marital property made incident to the division of marital property. The parties were married in 1941 and separated in 1976. Children born of the marriage are chronologically and financially emancipated. The husband was a practicing attorney in Maryville for 29 years prior to January 1, 1977, when he became magistrate Judge (now associate circuit Judge) for Nodaway County. The wife has a college degree in primary education, an L.P.N. degree and has taken courses in pharmacology. With the exception of part-time work intermittently obtained, the wife has worked as a homemaker during the marriage and has had no employment since the separation.