IN RE MARRIAGE OF BETHKE

No. 91-627.

484 N.W.2d 604 (1992)

In re the MARRIAGE OF Marianne Bethke and Gundolf J. BETHKE. Upon the Petition of Marianne Bethke, Petitioner-Appellee, And Concerning Gundolf J. Bethke, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

February 25, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark McCormick and Margaret C. Callahan of Belin Harris Lamson McCormick, A Professional Corp., Des Moines, for respondent-appellant.

Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. and Cynthia A. Scherrman of Gallagher, Langlas & Gallagher, P.C., Waterloo, for petitioner-appellee.

Heard by OXBERGER, C.J., and SCHLEGEL and SACKETT, JJ., but decided en banc.


SACKETT, Judge.

This appeal challenges the economic provision of a decree dissolving a twenty-year nontraditional marriage. Respondent-appellant Gundolf J. Bethke contends the economic provisions made by the trial court left him with less than twenty-five percent of the parties' accumulated property. He contends this fact, and the refusal of the trial court to award him alimony, was not equitable and was not a gender-neutral decision. We modify the decree. We modify...

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