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Dixon v. Dixon

Citations

  • 512 S.E.2d 539
  • 334 S.C. 222
  • 1999 S.C. App. LEXIS 23

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  • finding where the husband actively set out to destroy his business during the marital litigation, the proper valuation date for equitable division is the filing date
  • finding proper valuation date for business was filing date where the husband actively set out to destroy the business during the marital litigation
  • lowering a wife’s award of 75% of the marital property, finding it “unjustifiably punitive” on the husband notwithstanding his fault in the dissolution of the marriage
  • holding the family court should have considered value of family business at the commencement of the divorce action instead of zero value of the business at the time of the final hearing, where husband deliberately destroyed business to keep wife from obtaining any of its value

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Judges: Howell, Anderson, Stilwell

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