Jesperson v. Jesperson

How courts have described this case

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• finding trial court did not abuse discretion in awarding home held in joint tenancy to wife when “there was no intention by [wife] to create a one-half property interest in [husband], nor any expectation by [husband] that he had received a one-half property interest”
• not unreasonable for trial court to withdraw from marital property the equivalent of assets brought into marriage
• not unreasonable for trial court to withdraw from marital property the equivalent of assets brought into marriage
• “By the very nature of a property division, the marital estate is evaluated according to what property exists at the time the marriage is terminated.”
• where husband was 73 and wife was 68 at time of marriage, and where marriage was short, trial court did not abuse discretion in awarding premarital home to wife even though she deeded it in joint tenancy to husband

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).