Milligan v. Milligan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that court may order marital property to “be liquidated and immediately reduced to cash when the court finds it necessary, as here, to meet immediate needs”
• holding that court may order marital property to “be liquidated and immediately reduced to cash when the court finds it necessary, as here, to meet immediate needs”
• “The trial court has power to distribute marital assets, including bank accounts and securities, in whatever manner it finds just and equitable, regardless of the prior owner.”
• trial court’s distribution of property will not be disturbed unless discretion abused, withheld or exercised unreasonably or on untenable grounds
• where defendant failed to respond to discovery and offered conflicting evidence on ability to cash out his pension, court could act on limited information it had and assume such cash-out was possible
• where defendant failed to respond to discovery and offered conflicting evidence on ability to cash out his pension, court could act on limited information it had and assume such cash-out was possible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).