Lefler v. Lefler
Lefler v. Lefler
Opinion of the Court
Plaintiffs appeal has no legal or logical basis. Though he makes several arguments none of them, or any of his exceptions for that matter, address any of the court’s detailed findings of
(1) The distribution is not equal because the court failed to take into account the defendant’s separate income and estate, including an inheritance received months after the judgment was entered.
(2) The judge erred in requiring him to make the annual equalizing payments to defendant of $14,384.93 each because his annual disposable income is only $8,067 — as though that excused him from accomplishing the equal division agreed to and justified him keeping two-thirds of the property.
(3) In distributing the property the judge failed to consider the twelve statutory factors stated in G.S. 50-20(c)— though these factors do not have to be considered when an equal division is made, Spence v. Jones, 83 N.C. App. 8, 348 S.E. 2d 819 (1986), and how their consideration could have made an equal division more equal he does not say.
(4) The accounting methods of his value witnesses were more reliable and accurate than those of defendant’s value witnesses and the court erred in finding to the contrary.
No error in the court’s findings of fact having been called to our attention or appearing on the face of the record, the findings are conclusive, Harris v. Walden, 314 N.C. 284, 333 S.E. 2d 254 (1985), and since the findings support the conclusions of law and judgment the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
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