Shari L. Morey v. W. Michael Morey

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the numerator is the period of time during which the marriage existed while pension rights were accruing and the denominator is the total period of time during which pension rights accrued
• “[T]he coverture fraction formula operates to segregate a percentage of a given asset from the marital pot while including the balance of the asset in the marital pot.”
• trial court must state reason for deviation from equal division of marital pot
• “At the hearing, Husband testified that his Reynolds pension, annuity, and 401(k) started accruing when his employment began in 1983. He also testified that he did not know the value of either the Reynolds pension or 401(k
• “If the trial court determines that a party has rebutted the presumption of an equal division of the marital pot and decides to deviate from an equal division, then it must state its reasoning in its findings and judgment.”
• providing background on the formula

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).