Cooper v. Deal

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that court dividing marital property “does not have the jurisdiction to disregard or invalidate a third party’s claim of interest in marital property”
• holding that the family division has no jurisdiction “to disregard or invalidate a third party’s claim of interest in marital property”
• finding that family division lacks jurisdiction to invalidate interest in marital property held by third party
• stating that the “division of marital debt” falls “within the statutory purview of the family division”
• noting that “the need to render equitable orders is inherent in the resolution of divorce matters”
• deciding that divorce court lacked jurisdiction to invalidate a mortgage interest belonging to a third party because, although the court sits as a court in equity in divorce matters, RSA 458:16-a allows it to distribute only property that belongs to the divorcing parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).