Van Beek v. Van Beek

Citations

• 2025 ND 96

Syllabus

A district court may consider economic misconduct as a basis for an unequal distribution of the marital estate. However, this Court has not previously recognized economic misconduct as a basis for increasing the marital estate through \potential\ income or by imputing income. Attorney's fees awarded under N.D.C.C. § 14-09-29(4) against a perpetrator of domestic violence extends to the recovery for the costs and attorney's fees incurred in a subsequent appeal.