Property Interest
Where all of property placed in trust by husband was considered his, being property which he either acquired through inheritance or his employment, and wife could have been awarded an interest in this property only if she had alleged and proved special equities in it or if the trial court had chosen to award her an interest as alimony in gross in lieu of the more customary periodic alimony, since she did not allege or prove any special equities in this property, and the trial court ordered husband to make periodic payment of alimony, thus precluding any award of alimony in gross, the appellate court could not reverse the trial court’s disposition with respect to this property.
Where wife who got a divorce was never intended to be a party to written contract to purchase farm, or to oral arrangement, and where she did not plead that she had any special equities in the farm and husband testified that wife did not work on the farm or make any contributions toward the purchase of the farm, the trial court properly found that the wife had neither a legal nor an equitable interest of any kind in the farm.
