Brad Barton v. Alexandra Barton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the trial court is not required to split the marital assets equally so long as it states its reasons for the unequal division of property and the division is just and reasonable
• holding trial court did not abuse discretion in ordering husband to pay wife’s attorney fees because husband’s misconduct resulted in wife incurring additional litigation expenses and husband enjoyed greater earning capacity than wife
• factors trial court must consider when evaluating attorney’s fees requests in marital dissolution proceedings include the parties’ relative resources, economic condition, employability, and earnings potential
• “Misconduct that directly results in additional litigation expenses may properly be taken into account in the trial court’s decision to award attorney’s fees.”
• “The dissolution court should have included the entire present value of . . . the pension . . . in the marital estate (one pot theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).