No. 06-2073.Court of Appeals of Iowa.
October 12, 2007.
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Humboldt County, Kurt L. Wilke, Judge.
Richard Coleman appeals from the decree dissolving his marriage to Jill Coleman. AFFIRMED.
Dan McGrevey, Fort Dodge, for appellant.
Steven Sandblom of Baker, Johnsen Sandblom, Humboldt, and Anjela Shutts of Whitfield Eddy, P.L.C., Des Moines, for appellee.
Considered by HUITINK, P.J., and VOGEL and BAKER, JJ.
BAKER, J.
Richard and Jill Coleman were married in 1993. No children were born during the marriage. In November 2005, Richard filed a petition seeking to dissolve his marriage to Jill. Following a subsequent trial, the court granted the petition and dissolved the marriage. It divided the assets and debts of the parties, awarding Richard approximately $114,000 in net assets and Jill approximately $110,000.
On appeal from this decree, Richard contends the district court inequitably distributed that property. In particular, he maintains the court improperly allocated the parties’ Bode real estate, a debt due to his mother, tickets to a country music festival, cash, a ring, and a boat. Upon our de novo review of the record, see Zinger v. Zinger, 243 N.W.2d 639, 640
(Iowa 1976), we disagree.
We generally accord the district court considerable latitude and will disturb the court’s property distribution determinations only when there has been a failure to do equity In re Marriage of Schriner, 695 N.W.2d 493, 496 (Iowa 2005). We believe this is an appropriate case to apply that deference. Viewed in its entirety, the district court’s property distribution does equity between the parties. We have considered all issues raised on appeal. We find the district court’s division of property to be fair and equitable and affirm the property distribution as set forth by the district court.
AFFIRMED.