IN RE MARRIAGE OF WATSON

No. 86-249.

739 P.2d 951 (1987)

In re the MARRIAGE of Maybelle H. WATSON, Petitioner and Respondent, and John W. Watson, Respondent and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided July 13, 1987.

Rehearing Denied August 18, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bottomly & Gabriel, Robert W. Gabriel, and Strause & Anderson, Lawrence A. Anderson, Great Falls, for respondent and appellant.

Regnier, Lewis & Boland, Thomas Boland, Great Falls, for petitioner and respondent.


GULBRANDSON, Justice.

The husband, John Watson, appeals the marital property distribution as ordered by the Cascade County District Court. The issues on appeal are:

1) Whether the District Court abused its discretion in dividing the marital property?

2) Whether the District Court erred in offsetting the $28,000 maintenance award from the property awarded to the husband?

We affirm.

The wife, Maybelle Watson, married her first husband...

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