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Marital Property
Lewis v. Fulkerson Oldham Circuit Court Wade B. Lewis and Laura R. Fulkerson, after a tumultuous relationship, filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on April 3, 2013. During the process, a key dispute was the gift status of a trust established in 2009, titled the Laura Renee Fulkerson (“LRF”) Trust. While Wade stated the...
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Bond v. Bond Carter Circuit Court During a dissolution of marriage action, Husband had a medical malpractice claim pending. Family Court reserved the issue of classification of any award. After the claim was settled, although the settlement did not classify the awards by type, the money from several medical malpractice actions were pooled and divided...
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Paoli v. Paoli Marion Circuit Court After a hearing and order in a dissolution of marriage action, Husband appealed arguing that Family Court erred in its valuation of the marital items of personal property divided between the parties. The only party who presented testimony regarding the value of the personal property was Wife, which was...
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Normandin v. Normandin Oldham Circuit Court Original Digest The Kentucky Supreme Court modified its December 17, 2020 Opinion to allow the parties to offer evidence to rebut the presumption that the marital portion of each RSU allotment would be the proportion of time in each three-year vesting period that was marital and the proportion in...
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Normandin v. Normandin Questions Presented: Marital Dissolution. Restricted Stock Units. Trial court improperly classified restricted stock units (RSUs) as entirely nonmarital property. To appropriately classify such assets the trial court applies a presumption that the RSUs are earned over the period between grant and vesting, and the proportion of RSUs acquired for purposes of marital...
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DOYLE V. DOYLE “Questions Presented: Family Law. Interest on money judgment. KRS 360.040. Application of KRS 360.040, governing interest on a judgment in a domestic relations case.” Husband owed wife $24,277.02 for a 1998 property equalization settlement. Wife attempted to garnish Husband’s funds ultimately getting a judgment lien on his property in 2008 after he...
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NORMANDIN V. NORMANDIN Husband and Wife divorced and the family court entered an order on child support, maintenance, and property division. Wife appealed challenging the family court’s conclusions of law on a number of issues. Wife first argued that the trial court erred in failing to make adequate findings and by considering the nonmarital inheritance...
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COBANE V. COBANE   In a dissolution of marriage proceeding with complex assets, Husband appealed on a variety of asset classification, valuation, and division issues.  
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LEWIS V. ESTATE OF RICHARD D. LEWIS, ET AL. Husband and Wife obtained divorce and entered into an agreement which provided that Wife would execute a special warranty deed conveying the marital home to Husband and required him to execute a will devising the home and its contents to Wife at his death. Husband died...
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DUFFY V. DUFFY Trial court found unvested RSUs were marital property subject to division, although Husband forfeited his right to the RSUs during the dissolution proceedings by leaving his employer two months before the RSUs vested. The trial court did not count the RSU income in setting Husband’s gross income calculation for child support.  
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