Court Rejects Bright-Line Rule for Valuing Appreciation of Nonmarital Assets

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 22 No. 5
Legal and Court Case Update
May 2016
1629 Heavy Construction, NEC
237990 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
marital dissolution/divorce
divorce, stock, equitable distribution, appreciation

Witt-Bahls v. Bahls
2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 1451
February 3, 2016
US
State Court
Florida
Court of Appeal
Unknown (husband); unknown (wife)
Forst

Summary

Marital estate only has claim to increased value of stock from company for which owning spouse works if nonowning spouse can show owner’s active effort “to move the appreciation value from the nonmarital category to the marital one,” appeals court affirms ...

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Witt-Bahls v. Bahls

Marital estate only has claim to increased value of stock from company for which owning spouse works if nonowning spouse can show owner’s active effort “to move the appreciation value from the nonmarital category to the marital one,” appeals court affirms ...