Valley Mutual Life Ins. v. Burke

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• whether parties commingled finances during cohabitation is a critical fact for purposes of determining which assets are marital assets
• “As a general rule, both spouses are entitled to share in any increase in value of marital assets that occurs during the marriage, even if one spouse was the source of all of the parties’ assets at the beginning of the marriage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).