NO. COA03-1257
NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS
Filed: 17 August 2004
DONNIE DIANNE STARON,
(Formerly Clodfelter),
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v
.
Guilford County
No. 96 CvD 11358
ROGER DEAN CLODFELTER, SR.,
Defendant-Appellant.
Appeal by defendant from order entered 28 July 2003 by Judge
Joseph E. Turner in District Court, Guilford County. Heard in the
Court of Appeals 9 June 2004.
Marilyn Cahoon and Robert S. Cahoon, for plaintiff-appellee.
Woodruff & Associates, P.A., by Carolyn J. Woodruff, for
defendant-appellant.
McGEE, Judge.
This appeal involves the same facts as an unpublished opinion
by this Court filed 17
August 2004 (COA03-1256).
In this case,
defendant is specifically appealing from the domestic relations
order filed 28 July 2003 that ordered that plaintiff be awarded
"$109,758.20, effective April 2, 2002, plus or minus gains or
losses on that amount[.]" This amount of $109,758.20 represents
one-half of defendant's 401(k), being $95,637.50, plus the ten
percent post-separation appreciation of the 401(k), $14,120.70,
that the trial court awarded to plaintiff.
The specific issue is whether the trial court erred in
including the post-separation appreciation of defendant's 401(k) inthe amount of the marital estate. In the related opinion, we held
that the trial court erred in considering this amount as part of
the marital estate. Thus, the amount awarded to plaintiff in this
domestic relations order is flawed. Accordingly, we vacate this
order and remand to the trial court.
Vacated and remanded.
Judges McCULLOUGH and ELMORE concur.
Report per Rule 30(e).
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