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Cases of Interest: Conflict of Laws
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MISSISSIPPI: Savelle v. Savelle, 650 So. 2d 476 (Miss. 1995).
Mississippi law governed the equitable distribution of the husband's pension in Mississippi divorce proceedings, even though he had acquired the pension in Louisiana.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE: Flaherty v. Flaherty, ___ N.H. ___, 638 A.2d 1254 (1994).
A New Hampshire court hearing a divorce action correctly applied New Hampshire law which respected the trust document's election of Massachusetts law; Massachusetts law, in turn, dictated that a beneficiary's remainder interest in a trust could be included in the marital estate.
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OREGON: Marriage of Day, 137 Or. App. 264, 904 P.2d 171 (1995).
Oregon law must be applied in an Oregon dissolution case to determine the distribution of the parties' assets, including real property located outside of the state.
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