| 11. Divorce Source: TRANSMUTATION - EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS AND LABOR ON SEPARATE
(�1997) A cottage that was a gift to the husband during the parties marriage should not have been classified as marital property, despite the use of marital funds for the maintenance and upkeep of the property
... 5.9%
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         | 12. Divorce Source: TRANSMUTATION: CHANGING THE CHARACTER OF PROPERTY
(�1997) Many classification disputes involve the doctrine of transmutation. Derived from Latin words meaning to change across, the term transmutation in essence refers to a change in the status of property
... 5.9%
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         | 13. Divorce Source: APPRECIATION OF SEPARATE INVESTMENTS
(�1996) A spouses share of marital property is augmented by one-half of the value of gifts of marital property to third parties, if the donor made the gifts without the spouses knowledge, if the gifts were
... 5.9%
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         | 14. Divorce Source: Transmutation of Defined Contibution Plan
(�1996) A premarital interest in a defined contribution plan does not transmute into marital property by commingling merely because contributions are made with marital funds. See Cate v. Cate, 35 Ark. App. 79
... 5.9%
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         | 15. Divorce Source: Spouse's Work in Other Spouse's Business - No Rescission or
(�1996) The trial court found that the prenuptial agreement was valid and enforceable and that it had not been rescinded or modified. But the court concluded that it would nonetheless be inequitable to strict
... 5.9%
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         | 16. Divorce Source: Commingling of Separate Funds with Marital Funds - Transmution
(�1996) Each of the parties in Compton v. Compton had already acquired significant assets by the time they decided to marry. Their prenuptial agreement provided that each party was to keep as sole and separate
... 5.9%
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         | 17. Divorce Source: SEPARATE PROPERTY TRANSFERRED INTO JOINT TITLE
(�1996) The trial court was not plainly wrong in concluding that the husband intended to make a gift when he placed assets in joint title with the wife, and the decision to make a relatively equal distribution
... 5.9%
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         | 18. Divorce Source: FUNDS IN JOINT ACCOUNT
(�1995) Funds inherited by the husband remained his separate property even though he deposited them into the parties joint accounts, where he made the deposits for the sake of convenience and not with
... 5.9%
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         | 19. Divorce Source: TRANSMUTATION OF SEPARATE BUSINESS
(�1995) The parties separated in 1987 after 24 years of marriage. The wife was the homemaker and child-care provider during the marriage, while the husband was a successful investor and businessman.
... 5.9%
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         | 20. Divorce Source: JOINT TITLE AND THE GIFT EXCEPTION
(�1995) Most jurisdictions adhere to the view that a spouses conveyance of separate property into joint title presumptively creates a gift to the marital estate, thereby transmuting the separate property
... 5.9%
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