Increase in Value of Premarital Stock Attributable to Owner’s Efforts Characterized as Separate Property

Business Valuation Update BVLaw
Legal and Court Case Update
August 17, 2004
marital dissolution/divorce

Loren Edward Bishop v. Lee Ann Bishop
No. 30243-8-II (Wash. App. 2004), unpublished
US
State Court
Washington
Court of Appeals
Peggy Ann Bierbaum, Steven L. Olsen
Van Deren

Summary

The Washington Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s characterization of the appreciation in closely held stock as marital property.

See Also

Loren Edward Bishop v. Lee Ann Bishop

The Washington Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s characterization of the appreciation in closely held stock as marital property. It ruled that the character of an asset is determined at the time of its acquisition and that character is not alter ...