In Re the Marriage of Thomas

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• holding former wife entitled to alimony where former husband was awarded farm acquired by gift and- inheritance and there was a need to adjust for former wife’s contribution to farm
• holding former wife entitled to alimony where former husband was awarded farm acquired by gift and inheritance and there was a need to adjust for former wife's contribution to farm
• noting that some of the factors weighed in favor of dividing the asset, but determining it was not unjust to set it aside because the 7 complaining party was “well qualified to fend and care for herself” and she had no special needs
• finding the wife’s role in improving the property mitigated toward dividing the property, but concluding her lack of relationship with the donors made distribution to the husband equitable
• considering the length of the marriage and the length of time the property was held after it was given as a factor favoring treating gifted or inherited property as marital property
• considering “contributions of the parties toward the property, its care, preservation or improvement” when deciding whether it is equitable to divide 7 property that is otherwise outside the scope of marital property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).