In Re Marriage of Lucas

How courts have described this case

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

• “The act of taking title in a joint and equal ownership form is inconsistent with an intention to preserve a separate property interest.”
• “The act of taking title in a joint and equal ownership form is inconsistent with an intention to preserve a separate property interest.”
• youth and inexperience meant husband had not contributed to the goodwill of the firm so no value should be placed on goodwill for his partnership interest
• “[T]he affirmative act of specifying a form of ownership in the conveyance of title ... removes such property from the more general [community property] presumption.”
• “What is being measured is in reality the capacity of repeat patronage and of a certain immunity to competition to produce earnings beyond the average for that kind of business.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).