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Altman v. Altman

Citations

  • 181 S.W.3d 676
  • 2005 Tenn. App. LEXIS 207
  • 2005 WL 819733

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “In the final analysis, the appropriateness of the trial court’s division depends on its results.”
  • “A division of marital property is not rendered inequitable simply because it is not precisely equal.”
  • “[T]he classification of property does not depend on the state of its record title but on the conduct of the parties.”
  • “Simple mismanagement of family finances is not dissipation, nor is using marital funds to prop up a failing business.”
  • “equitable” division is not the same as an “equal division” of marital property
  • “[W]e will ordinarily defer to the trial court’s division of the parties’ marital estate unless it is inconsistent with the factors in Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-121(c) or is not supported by a preponderance of the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Koch, Cain, Cottrell

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