Murray v. Murray Ex Rel. Estate of Murray

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• holding mere use of separate property, without additional evidence of intent to treat it as marital property, is not sufficient to establish transmutation
• finding the family court did not commit reversible error in determining the home and rental properties were not marital property
• holding the house was not transmuted into marital property when the wife \failed to produce evidence that any appreciable amount of marital funds was expended on improvement of the properties\ and the wife's efforts \were largely routine duties such as cleaning and painting\
• finding wife failed to produce objective evidence showing that real estate purchased by husband prior to the marriage was regarded by the parties as common property during the marriage
• finding the wife failed to produce objective evidence showing that real estate purchased by the husband prior to the marriage was regarded by the parties as common property during the marriage
• finding the family court did not err in awarding the wife a special equity of $13,250 in the nontransmuted marital home, which represented fifty percent of the appreciation in the home during the parties’ marriage

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