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By Laura Morgan: Trial court's findings supported order denying allocation to husband of any portion of wife's share in business she obtained with separate property, to which husband devoted... Read more
In Re Marriage of O'Brien, the respondent seeks a review of a court decision awarding 42% of his monthly pension benefits to the petitioner. Read more
In re Kelly and Moesslang: The court examined the doctrine used to resolve the property distribution when unmarried people separate. Read more
Father who held legal title to marital home with his daughter was an indispensable party to daughter's divorce proceeding, and thus, trial court had independent obligation to determine what... Read more
Billye Olmstead appeals from a summary judgment awarding the proceeds of an individual retirement account to Roy Napoli, the independent executor of the estate of Olmstead's former husband,... Read more
Marter v. Marter: Husband's act of planting trees on the wife's sixty‑acres of inherited property did not convert it into a marital property. Read more
The post-decree right of a former spouse to a share of the other spouse's military retirement benefits when the retiree has waived retirement pay in favor of a tax benefit afforded to him as... Read more
Husband argues that the court improperly considered the parties’ first marriage and prior period of cohabitation in the calculation of its financial orders because the court mentioned these... Read more
Wife filed a petition for bill of review to set aside the property settlement reached with her ex-husband, and approved in the parties' divorce decree. She alleged his threats of financial r... Read more
Laura Morgan reviews the Nebraska's case Bock v. Dalbey and the property division in divorce. Read more
