In the Matter of Finear and Finear

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• treating an inheritance like “any other gift” for the purposes of spousal support
• explaining both courts’ decisions that husband had rebutted presumption of equal contribution
• the husband’s use of his separately acquired inheritance/trust funds for family purposes constituted evidence of commingling under a “just and proper” analysis
• where there was no evidence that the wife made any contribution or had any influence over the acquisition of assets that the husband had inherited during the marriage the presumption was overcome
• award- ing real property to the spouse that can preserve it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).