A.E. v. J.E.

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 1585

Syllabus

Financial misconduct spousal support child support marital property marital home temporary spousal support attorney fees marital debt loan life insurance proposed shared parenting parenting time restraining orders. Trial court erred in finding that husband committed financial misconduct by dissipating marital funds when he liquidated restricted stock units when the court restrained his income and he had no other means of paying his tax liabilities. The trial court erred by ordering husband to pay wife more than half of his income as temporary spousal support. The trial court erred in substituting its own valuation for the marital home based on the court's review of comparable home values instead of the valuation of husband's appraiser, who appraised the property one month before trial. Trial court erred in ordering husband to pay wife's attorney fees when there was no evidence that he was in a superior financial position or that he caused wife to incur an increase in attorney fees. Trial court erred in requiring husband to pay off a loan wife received from her parents when the loan was used to pay college tuitions for the parties' adult children and to pay real estate taxes on the parties' marital home, which was wife's responsibility. Trial court erred in designating wife the beneficiary of a lapsed insurance policy. Trial court erred in not adopting the husband's shared parenting plan and in finding that a reduction in father's parenting time was in the child's best interest. The trial court failed to account for funding missing from wife's lawyer's IOLTA account. Trial court erred in leaving all restraining orders in place without specifically identifying the restraining orders and identifying the restrained parties.