Trust distributions may be divided in divorce 
Published: February 25, 2013
Tags: divorce, property division, trusts
Distributions that a husband received from a charitable trust could be treated as marital property subject to division in his divorce, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in affirming judgment.
Equal division for unmarried couple’s assets
Published: October 24, 2012
Tags: property division
An unmarried couple’s assets should be divided equally where they raised children together, made joint financial arrangements and both contributed to the improvement and maintenance of their property, the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled.
Benchmarks: Lawyer loses divorce fight over professional goodwill
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: October 12, 2012
Tags: community property, divorce, good will, property division
An Arizona court has decided that the valuation of a lawyer’s professional goodwill is not limited to his stock redemption value in his law firm.
Divorced wife can’t share in military disability pay
Published: September 17, 2012
Tags: Mansell v. Mansell, military disability benefits, property division, Uniform Services Former Spouses Protection Act
Federal law preempted a state court from awarding a portion of a divorced husband’s military disability benefits to his former wife, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled in reversing judgment.
Noncompete can be ordered in divorce
Published: May 11, 2012
Tags: divorce, noncompete, property division
A state court had the authority to order a wife not to operate a competing business when it awarded the husband the family business in their divorce, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled in reversing judgment.
Marital share of soldier’s retirement miscalculated
Published: April 16, 2012
Tags: divorce, property division, retirement benefits
The marital share of a divorced husband’s military pension should have been based on the number of service “points” earned during the marriage rather than the man’s time in the military during that period, Maine’s highest court has ruled in reversing judgment.
Husband’s post-separation COLAs divisible in divorce
Published: April 13, 2012
Tags: divorce, property division
Post-separation cost of living adjustments to a husband’s military pension benefits constitute marital property subject to distribution in his divorce, a Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled in reversing judgment.
Military health insurance counts as marital asset
Published: December 12, 2011
Tags: divorce, property division, Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act
A husband’s post-retirement military health insurance benefits could be valued in dividing marital property in his divorce, the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled.
Wife gets share of husband’s PI settlement in divorce
Published: December 7, 2011
Tags: negligence, property division
A personal injury settlement obtained by a husband following separation was marital property subject to division in his divorce, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
Wife’s stock options may be divisible in divorce
Published: November 16, 2011
Tags: divorce, property division, stock options
Stock options that a wife received from her employer may be marital property subject to division in her divorce – even though her rights in those assets vested following the parties’ separation, the Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in reversing judgment.
