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Johnson v. Johnson

Citations

  • 372 S.E.2d 107
  • 296 S.C. 289
  • 1988 S.C. App. LEXIS 129

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that, on appeal, this court looks to the overall fairness of the apportionment
  • providing that using the property exclusively for marital purposes is evidence that the parties regard the property as common property
  • providing that using marital funds to build equity in the property is evidence the parties regard the property as common property
  • holding “the purpose of alimony is to place the supported spouse, as nearly as practical, in the position of support she enjoyed during the marriage”
  • holding “the mere use of separate property to support the marriage, without some additional evidence of intent to treat it as property of the marriage, is not sufficient to establish transmutation”
  • holding nonmarital property may be transmuted into marital property if: (1) it becomes so commingled with marital property as to be untraceable; (2) it is jointly titled; or (3

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Judges: Bell, Sanders, Gardner

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