Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “... [b]ecause the debt owed by a spouse is a legally relevant factor in dividing the community estate, a trial court may abuse its discretion if it fails to consider such a factor.... The record does not disclose the amount of these debts, so the court could not have considered the amount of these debts in dividing the community estate ... Although the court need not divide the community estate equally, a disproportionate division must be supported by some reasonable basis.... Having reviewed the record, we find no reasonable basis for the disproportionate division of the community assets and the liabilities of the parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Marriage of Brown