In Re Petition of Fenzau

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• holding that the “prohibition against considering marital misconduct does not foreclose the [trial] court from considering the medical and financial needs of a spouse which result from the other spouse’s physical, mental, or emotional abuse during marriage”
• “Consideration of the economic effects of abuse ... is not an interjection of fault or an assignment of blame.... If the economic impact of abuse is excluded from consideration in making a division of the marital estate, a truly equitable apportionment cannot result.”

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