In Re Marriage of Brooks

How courts have described this case

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• holding that maintenance of $225 per week awarded to severely disabled wife was not an abuse of discretion in spite of considerable marital assets awarded to wife
• holding trial court did not abuse its discretion by awarding respondent wife slightly more than 50% of marital estate where respondent was a virtual invalid and petitioner was in good health
• holding trial court did not abuse its discretion by awarding respondent wife slightly more than 50% of marital estate where respondent was a virtual invalid and petitioner was in good health
• finding that the husband’s suggestion that the date of the parties’ separation should be used as the termination date of the wife’s property rights was “baseless” and stating that “[l]aw and policy will not support such a result”
• property should be valued at the time of judgment of dissolution of marriage
• “The amount and duration of a maintenance award lies within the discretion of the trial court, for whose judgment we will not substitute our own absent an abuse of discretion”

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