Moore v. Moore

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 1862

Syllabus

An intermediate court lacks authority to disqualify a trial judge or to void a judgment based on a claimed conflict of interest (here involving a judicial law clerk who had been counsel for one of the parties). The divorce decree here sufficiently allocated the relevant property. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in establishing a de facto termination date for the marriage, but should have used the same date consistently. The trial court's allocation of a salary bonus earned over time that extended beyond the marriage was not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court also did not err in refusing to allocate as the wife's separate property money that had been placed into a custodial account for the benefit of the couple's minor child. The trial court did not err in concluding that statutory formula required a child support award of $37,710 per month for the young girl. Judgment affirmed in part and reversed in partcause remanded.