In Re the Marriage of Sullins

How courts have described this case

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• noting “the district court’s valuation and distribution ... fell far short of our accepted methods”
• finding a wife is not liable for a husband’s tax debts and penalties upon dissolution, because such tax problems are “self-imposed”
• noting “the district court’s valuation and distribution . . . fell far short of our accepted methods”
• refusing to disturb the district court’s finding that a husband’s claim of debt was unsupported by the evidence in part relying on the district court's findings of witness credibility
• noting it is normally desirable to divide defined benefit plans using the percentage method
• considering “the needs of the party seeking the award, the ability of the other party to pay, and the relative merits of the appeal” in reviewing an award of trial attorney fees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).