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  Where a wife was awarded a highly disproportionate amount, in view of her substantial contribution to the marital estate and the husband’s dissipation thereof, there was no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s award.  In re Petrovich
 Where the trial court in its order pointed out that petitioner wife made large, traceable cash contributions toward property acquired during the marriage, where it further pointed out in its order that the respondent husband’s contributions of material and labor were indefinite and in any event small relative to petitioner’s large contributions, and where the trial court chose to disbelieve the respondent’s testimony regarding his large expenditures on the marital property, there was no abuse of discretion on the part of the trial court in awarding a disproportionate award of marital property to the petitioner.  In re Guntren
 Where the trial court in its order pointed out that petitioner wife made large, traceable cash contributions toward property acquired during the marriage, where it further pointed out in its order that the respondent husband’s contributions of material and labor were indefinite and in any event small relative to petitioner’s large contributions, and where the trial court chose to disbelieve the respondent’s testimony regarding his large expenditures on the marital property, there was no abuse of discretion on the part of the trial court in awarding a disproportionate award of marital property to the petitioner.  In re Guntren