Nicholson v. Wolfe

How courts have described this case

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

• holding wife's limited help with bookkeeping and answering phone insufficient to support implicit finding of intent to hold husband's premarital business jointly
• stating that \(aln equal division of the marital property is pre sumed to be equitable\ and approving the superior court's decision to begin its analysis with this presumption). 10 . Merrill v. Merrill, 368 P.2d 546, 547-48 n. 4 (Alaska 1962
• upholding denial of rehabilitative alimony when spouse “had significant education, skills, and experiences that would make him employable in several job markets”
• describing abuse of discretion as relating to a QDRO: \Generally courts have approved of lump sum payouts where there are 'marital assets sufficient to satisfy the non-employee spouse's claim without undue hardship on the employee spouse.' \
• \Trial courts have discretion to distribute retirement benefits to a non-employee spouse through either a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) or through a lump sum payout.\
• parties may by their actions demonstrate intent to treat separate property as marital

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).