In Re Marriage of Winegard

How courts have described this case

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• noting “[c]onsidered alone, the tax information would weigh against the finding of a common-law marriage, but the remainder of the record sufficiently overcomes the contrary inferences which might be drawn”
• giving weight to tax filing information in determining common law marriage question
• observing there is “no public policy in Iowa favoring common law marriage”
• recognizing common law marriages in Iowa
• court stated a larger award may have been justified but for the brevity of the marriage
• value of husband’s closely held stock $5.6 million prior to marriage; wife awarded $140,000; court considered lifestyle to which wife had become accustomed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).