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Cases of Interest: Maine
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Accounts (full category)

MAINE: Williams v. Williams, 706 A.2d 1038 (Me. 1998).
Funds in a savings account in the name of the parties' minor child could not be classified as marital property.
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Appreciation of Assets (full category)

MAINE: Williams v. Williams, 645 A.2d 1118 (Me. 1994).
The entire appreciation of an asset could be allocated to the marital estate even though part of the asset was the husband's separate premarital property, given evidence of unspecified marital contributions to the property and the lack of evidence about appreciation attributable to the nonmarital contribution.
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Children (full category)

MAINE: Williams v. Williams, 706 A.2d 1038 (Me. 1998).
Funds in a savings account in the name of the parties' minor child could not be classified as marital property.
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Classification of Assets (full category)

MAINE: Findlen v. Findlen, 695 A.2d 1216 (Me. 1997).
Shares of stock in a farm owned by the husband's family were marital property because they were acquired as compensation for the husband's labor rather than as a gift, but it was error to divide the shares of stock equally between the parties.
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MAINE: Long v. Long, 697 A.2d 1317 (Me. 1997).
Jointly owned real property is subject to division as marital property even though parts of it were acquired with nonmarital funds.
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MAINE: Simoneau v. Simoneau, 693 A.2d 1135 (Me. 1997).
Property acquired by one party during premarital cohabitation is not marital property subject to equitable distribution.
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MAINE: Williams v. Williams, 706 A.2d 1038 (Me. 1998).
Funds in a savings account in the name of the parties' minor child could not be classified as marital property.
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Division of Property (full category)

MAINE: Berry v. Berry, 658 A.2d 1097 (Me. 1995).
The trial court improperly divided the parties' two wood lots when it awarded the lots to the husband but permitted the wife to harvest timber on the lots for 10 years.
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Estoppel (full category)

MAINE: Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. Richardson, 640 A.2d 205 (Me. 1994).
Judgment entered in wife's divorce action collaterally estopped her from denying responsibility for the burning of her house.
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Gifts (full category)

MAINE: Williams v. Williams, 706 A.2d 1038 (Me. 1998).
Funds in a savings account in the name of the parties' minor child could not be classified as marital property.
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Joint Titling (full category)

MAINE: Long v. Long, 697 A.2d 1317 (Me. 1997).
Jointly owned real property is subject to division as marital property even though parts of it were acquired with nonmarital funds.
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Marital Home (full category)

MAINE: Tibbetts v. Tibbetts, 2000 Me. 210, 762 A.2d 937 (2000).
Could the court order the partition of the real property in order to satisfy the district court order?
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Pensions (full category)

MAINE: Greenwood v. Greenwood, 746 A.2d 358 (Me. 2000).
A provision that stated that the wife was entitled to 50% of the marital component of the husband's pension was ambiguous and subject to clarification, since it could be read to require either an immediate lump-sum payment to the wife or a payment at a later date.
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Premarital Property (full category)

MAINE: Simoneau v. Simoneau, 693 A.2d 1135 (Me. 1997).
Property acquired by one party during premarital cohabitation is not marital property subject to equitable distribution.
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Valuation of Property (full category)

MAINE: Noyes v. Noyes, 662 A.2d 921 (Me. 1995).
It was not an abuse of discretion for the trial court to value the marital property at the time of the second divorce hearing where the first divorce judgment was reversed on appeal.
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MAINE: Peters v. Peters, 697 A.2d 1254 (Me. 1997).
The trial court was not required to value marital property in accordance with the husband's personal financial statement when he testified about the value of the property at the divorce hearing.
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