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Supreme Court of South Carolina· 6/6/2005

Wooten v. Wooten

Citations

  • 615 S.E.2d 98
  • 364 S.C. 532
  • 2005 S.C. LEXIS 159

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • stating on writ of certiorari in a domestic relations case, “an appellate court has the authority to find the facts in accordance with its own view of the preponderance of the evidence”
  • stating on writ of certiorari in a domestic relations case, \an appellate court has the authority to find the facts in accordance with its own view of the preponderance of the evidence\
  • holding “[e]ven though Husband prevailed on two of the equitable division issues in this appeal, the beneficial results obtained are only one of several factors to be considered by the family court in deciding whether or not to award attorney’s fees”
  • stating the burden of proving a debt incurred prior to marital litigation is non-marital rests on the party who makes that assertion
  • defining marital debt as \debt incurred for the joint benefit of the parties regardless of whether the parties are legally liable or whether one party is individually liable\
  • finding no error when the family court did not expressly consider the tax consequences resulting from its award to the wife of one-half the value of the husband's 401(k

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: III, Burnett, Toal, Moore, Waller, Pleicones

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