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• holding that “the [superior] court has broad discretion in [the] area [of property division]”
• holding wife’s work as accountant and onshore liaison for husband’s fishing business was insufficient to demonstrate that husband had requisite intent to transmute business to marriage
• concluding it was not abuse of discretion for superior court to order $5,000 per month in interim spousal support and not credit paying party for alleged overpayments of spousal support
• “An equal division of property is presumptively equitable, but the trial court has broad discretion in this area.”
• “[T]he trial court must render findings of ultimate fact that support any decreed property division.” (quoting Beals v. Beals, 303 P.3d 453, 459 (Alaska 2013))
• “Marital property generally includes all property acquired during the marriage, except for property received by one spouse as a gift or inheritance, and property acquired in exchange for separate property which is maintained as separate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).