John K. Kelly, Appellant v. Christian Snowden Kelly, Appellee

Summary

The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed the circuit court’s post-remand divorce order. It held that Christian was not barred from seeking an unequal distribution of the stock because she had prevailed on the stock’s characterization in the first proceeding and therefore was not required to preserve an alternative distribution argument. The court also held that John failed to preserve his challenge to the evidentiary basis for the distribution, that the circuit court could address the marital-home deficiency on remand, and that John’s challenge to depositing alimony into the court registry was unsupported by authority. Justice Hart, dissenting, would have reversed the property distribution and required release of the deposited alimony; Special Justice Grimes separately dissented regarding the registry funds.