Guggenmos v. Guggenmos

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• “While [exaggerations of accomplishments, character, and circumstances] constitute a species of fraud, they do not afford a basis for destruction of the marriage.”
• fraud sufficient to render a marriage contract subject to annulment must go to “the very essence of the marriage relation” (quotation omitted)
• misrepresentation about ending a previous relationship did not go to the essentials of marriage
• abuse of discretion “require[s] the reasons or rulings of the trial judge to be clearly untenable and to deprive a party of a substantial right such as to amount to a denial of justice”
• division of property in marriage dissolution cases is a matter initially entrusted to the sound discretion of the trial judge and, on a de novo review of the record, will be affirmed by the Supreme Court in the absence of an abuse of discretion on the part of the district court
• characteristics of an “abuse of discretion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).