Williams v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court’s discretion in awarding marital home is “broad,” and may factor in all of the statutory criteria, including the parties’ respective contributions
• concluding that the court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to hold hearing where issues father sought to raise in his post-trial motions had been addressed at trial
• concluding that trial court did not abuse discretion in awarding marital home to wife even while acknowledging husband’s greater financial contributions, considering other factors such as parties’ income, value of other marital assets, and wife’s homemaker contributions
• holding there was no abuse of discretion in denying defendant’s post-trial motions without a hearing where defendant sought to raise issues already presented at trial
• explaining that appeals from magistrate decisions are to family division, not Supreme Court
• affirming family court’s award of marital home to wife, even though husband had contributed more to value of residence, where court balanced that fact against source and income of parties, need of parties, and nonmonetary contribution of wife as homemaker

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kanaan v. Kanaan
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1995-03-24· cited 91×
• In re Nyhan
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2002-06-21· cited 39×
• In re D.B.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-12-10· cited 24×
• Johnson v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1995-04-14· cited 20×
• Putnam v. Putnam
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1996-12-20· cited 15×
• Poston v. Poston
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-12-17· cited 12×
• Paine v. Buffa
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2014-01-31· cited 11×
• Bergman v. Marker
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2007-12-21· cited 6×
• Patnode v. Urette
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2014-05-02· cited 6×
• Leas v. Leas
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1999-06-25· cited 5×
• Rushlow v. Rushlow (In Re Rushlow)
  D. Vermont· 2002-05-03· cited 3×
• In Re DB
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-12-10
• In re A.C.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-12-22

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Colm v. Colm
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1979-10-02· cited 17×
• Scott v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-12-21· cited 17×
• Goshy v. Morey
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-12-18· cited 15×
• In Re Marriage of Panozzo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-03-02· cited 9×
• Costello v. Costello
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-11-02· cited 5×