124 Misc. 2d 636 - Roffman v. Roffman’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The concept of equitable distribution is a corollary of the principle that marriage is a joint enterprise whose 'vitality, success and endurance is dependent upon the conjunction of multiple components, only one of which is financial. The nonremun-erated efforts of raising children, making a home, performing a myriad of personal services and providing physical and emotional support are, among other noneco-nomic ingredients of the marital relationship, at least as essential to its nature and maintenance as are the economic factors, and their worth is consequently entitled to substantial recognition. Thus, the extent to which each of the parties contributes to the marriage is not measurable only by the amount of money contributed to it during the period of its endurance but, rather, by the whole complex of financial and nonfinancial components contributed. The function of equitable distribution is to recognize that when a marriage ends, each of the spouses, based on the totality of the contributions made to it, has a stake in and right to a share of the marital assets accumulated while it endured, not because that share is needed, but because those assets represent the capital product of what was essentially a partnership entity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marriage of Nardini v. Nardini