Mississippi Ethics Commission v. Grisham

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• explaining that trial court implicitly must have found that stock options were marital property when court distributed options between parties
• collecting cases, including Frederick, and noting that the trend “has been to treat unvested stock options as property on the basis that the options create a contractual right in the employee who holds them that is a valuable form of intangible property”
• collecting cases, including Frederick , and noting that the trend \has been to treat unvested stock options as property on the basis that the options create a contractual right in the employee who holds them that is a valuable form of intangible property\
• “the date of dissolution is the appropriate date on which to value the parties’ assets”
• trial court’s findings demonstrate proper interpretation of statute despite lack of express reference to statutory factors
• stock options, like pension benefits, were marital property because they represented presently existing interest in that they created in holder enforceable contract right

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