Five years ago, Ralph and Patricia Falk began building the biggest house in Utah -- a gigantic 35,000-square-foot, 60-room South African Cape Dutch-style palace on a 14-acre Holladay estate.

Today, it's a house divided, with the divorced couple subdividing their lavish Utah holdings and sweating some of the small stuff in court.Ralph Falk II, 76, the heir to the Baxter International fortune, and Patricia Falk-Moiseenko, 51, were married at Snowbird in 1985. Falk had just retired as chairman of the health-care supply giant founded by his father and moved from Chicago to Utah.

Together, the couple had one child and adopted six others, now ranging in age from 8 to 16. Besides a Georgian mansion in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Ill., they bought a house in Deer Valley, a condominium at Snowbird, the Holladay estate and other property.

The Falks were divorced in Cook County, Ill., on April 23, 1997, and later executed a marital settlement agreement dividing up their property, including the Holladay estate. Known as "Providence," only the foundation of the massive home was ever completed.

According to the terms of the agreement, a two-acre "guest house" on the property is to be held in trust for one of the couple's daughters, and the rest is to be subdivided and sold, with Falk getting 33.33 percent of the proceeds and Falk-Moiseenko getting 66.66 percent.

Falk also agreed to set aside $5 million in trust and the Snowbird condominium for the children; pay between $20,000 and $34,000 per month in child support until they are 18 and pay for the college educations. He also agreed that Falk-Moiseenko is to receive 33.33 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the Lake Forest home, which sold for $4.8 million; the Deer Valley house; and a specific house on Cottonwood Lane or one like it.

But with one exception, it wasn't the big, multimillion-dollar provisions in the marital settlement agreement that brought the couple to court this week. It was some of the sub-paragraphs.

Falk-Moiseenko filed a breach-of-contract complaint in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City Tuesday alleging that her ex-husband had paid her only $788,033 of the $1.6 million he collected from the sale of the Lake Forest home.

Moreover, he had failed to pay the $45,000 salary of "an employee to assist plaintiff in running her household." And he had failed to buy her a new car costing up to $65,000; pay the expenses for the Snowbird condominium and provide the kids with the promised season ski passes to Snowbird.

"Defendant partially performed the obligations," the lawsuit said, "but has refused to continue paying the salary and bonuses for plaintiff's household assistant, has refused to purchase the vehicle and has refused to continue paying all maintenance for the Snowbird condominium."

Falk-Moiseenko is also accusing Falk of taking "a large quantity of unique, antique lumber" that had been purchased for construction projects on their property.

"In 1997, defendant offered plaintiff his interest in the lumber and plaintiff accepted. Plaintiff then took possession of the lumber and stored it at her expense. In December 1998, without plaintiff's consent or knowledge, defendant took possession of the lumber and refuses to return it," the lawsuit states.

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The lawsuit, which has been assigned to Judge Ronald E. Nehring, seeks damages to be determined at trial, attorney fees and a declaration "establishing the parties' respective rights."

Falk reportedly inherited more than $70 million when his mother died in 1990. Her husband, Dr. Ralph Falk, founded Baxter International, the nation's largest hospital supply firm, while working as a physician in Boise. The family and firm later moved to Chicago.

The inheritance made news when Falk's sister, Carol Falk Lopacich, filed a lawsuit claiming she had been disowned and disinherited by her mother because she was too fat.

The lawsuit, which was dismissed in 1993 by a federal appeals court, accused Falk of preventing a reconciliation between his sister and mother. Lopacich said in the lawsuit that she lost almost 200 pounds in a bid to please her mother.

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