Matter of Marriage of Richardson

How courts have described this case

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

• awarding wife larger share of marital assets in part because her emotional maladies prevented her from working full time
• “As we have explained on several occasions, ‘permanent spousal support’ is something of a misnomer”
• indefinite spousal support awarded where wife’s earning capacity was impaired due to health problems
• “Although spousal support payments are designed largely to help a spouse overcome the effects of domesticity, spousal support is nevertheless appropriate even where a spouse’s impaired earning capacity results not from homemaking activities but from health problems.”
• a finding that the wife’s parents would forgive, or had already forgiven, the amount the wife owed on a condominium makes it appropriate to include the condominium’s value in the wife’s share of the marital property
• social objectives may require an unequal division of marital property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).