KUHN, J., August 16, 1989.
The parties, James R. Smith and Brenda L. Smith, are engaged in protracted divorce litigation. One of the issues to be resolved is whether proceeds from a certain wrongful death action is marital property.
The parties were married on February 20, 1979, and were finally separated on April 11, 1988. Husband fathered a child, Raymond Smith, from a prior marriage. On December 2, 1985, Raymond Smith, then age 25, was killed in...
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