Larsen-Ball v. Ball

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an equitable division of a marital estate is not necessarily an equal division
• holding that dissipation occurs when spouse “wastes marital property” or where funds are used “for a purpose unrelated to the marriage,” and concluding that courts must distinguish between “dissipation and discretionary spending”
• stating that the money husband spent on his Paramours “clearly constitutes dissipation”
• stating that the money husband spent on his paramours “clearly constitutes dissipation”
• noting the General Assembly’s intent to permit parties to acquire marital property as late as the date of the final divorce hearing
• “Although the trial court did not track the exact language of the statutory factors, its findings clearly reflect its consideration of the factors.”’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).