Umbaugh v. Stinson

Citations

• 2020 Ohio 3299

Syllabus

In final divorce decree, the trial court did not err by awarding $142,000 in disputed cash assets to husband. Although wife claimed that sum represented proceeds from the sale of a house that she purchased with premarital assets, the parties' earlier legal separation decree awarded the bank account holding those funds to husband, and wife did not appeal from that prior final judgment. Wife also did not show that husband made a gift to her by later transferring that sum to a joint bank account in order to facilitate a reconciliation attempt that ultimately failed, and the trial court did not abuse its discretion by failing to award part of the $142,000 to wife based on her allegations of financial misconduct by husband. Judgment affirmed.