Marriage of Woodthrop and Aufdermaur CA6

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Husband and wife married in the mid-1980s and separated in 2016. Husband was a dairy farmer until he sold his farms in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Husband and wife invested the proceeds from the farm sales into real estate, including land in Drytown, a parcel with a home and cellular tower on it in Lockeford, and four acres in Brookdale. Husband and wife later subdivided the Brookdale property into multiple parcels; they lived in a home on one parcel and rented out homes on five others. On the Drytown land, they created a nine-parcel subdivision, constructed a road, and ran a water line and electricity to the individual parcels. Wife stayed home with the children until 2011, when she began working outside the home. She made $85,000 in 2019. After selling the farms, husband was not employed apart from managing the properties. In December 2015, the parties executed three quitclaim deeds. Husband quitclaimed two of the Brookdale properties (101 and 121 Aufderwood Lane) to wife, and she quitclaimed one of the other Brookdale properties (185 Aufderwood Lane, known as the “Cabin”) to husband. The deeds were signed and notarized but not…