Honnas v. Honnas

How courts have described this case

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

• remanding case to trial court to determine value of the community’s efforts at time of dissolution and then award one-half of that amount to non-owning spouse using value-at-dissolution formula
• describing the scope of the community lien as the share of enhanced value attributable to the community contribution
• community entitled to its share of appreciated value of improvements attained through community funds and labor, not merely one-half the community funds expended on improvements.
• “[T]he community is entitled to share in the enhanced value of the property due to this expenditure of [community] funds . . . .”
• “Married joint tenants . . . each hold[] his or her ownership interest as separate property.”
• reaffirming a value-at-dissolution formula for real property cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).