Anderson-Fye v. Mullinax-Fye

Citations

• 2024 Ohio 5909

Syllabus

Divorce; Evid.R. 611; expert witness; expert report; separate property; financial tracing; division of property; motion to show cause; contempt; financial misconduct; distributive award; child tax exemption; temporary support; time limitations; due process; attorney fees; abuse of discretion; custody determination; best interest of the children; marital debts; imputed income. Our standard of reviewing decisions of a domestic relations court is generally the abuse-of-discretion standard. Upon review, the trial court did not abuse its discretion. The trial court did not err in admitting evidence from an expert witness related to the financial tracing of various claim separate property. The court did not abuse its discretion in its division of marital property and separate property, or in its allocation of marital debts and liabilities. Plaintiff-appellant was not entitled to a distributive award where defendant-appellee did not commit financial misconduct. The allocation of parental rights and responsibilities and the order to alternate the child tax exemption was not an abuse of discretion. Finally, the trial court did not err in imputing income to defendant-appellee.