In Re Hampers

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a reference to “due process” in the petitioner’s motion for reconsideration “was insufficient to preserve a claim under the State Constitution”
• noting that when the trial court permitted the wife “to retain the sums paid by the [husband] for her attorney’s fees, the court made these fees part of the final property distribution”
• emphasizing that “marital property is not to be divided by some mechanical formula but in a manner deemed ‘just’” (quotation omitted) and that “[t]he court need not consider all of the enumerated factors or give them equal weight”
• emphasizing statutory obligation to apportion marital property equitably in awarding assets held in revocable trust
• “[P]arties may not have judicial review of matters not raised in the forum of trial.”
• “A trial court is not precluded . . . from awarding a particular asset in its entirety to one party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).