France v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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• concluding trial court’s award of husband’s lottery winnings to the husband was a sustainable exercise of discretion
• “[t]he trial court may order redistribution of any property falling within the joint marital estate, or within the individual estates of either spouse” (quotation omitted)
• “marital property includes any property acquired up to the date of a decree of legal separation or divorce”
• for purposes of property distribution, relevant period of employment in pension system is from the date of marriage to the date divorce proceedings began
• “[A]fter considering the parties’ property in its entirety and the enumerated special circumstances, [the trial court] may find, in its sound discretion, that equitable distribution of a marital asset means awarding it, in whole, to one party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).