173 Ohio App. 3d 632 - Kestner v. Kestner’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2025
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Blakemore v. Blakemore · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Miller v. Miller · Cherry v. Cherry
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) The duration of the marriage; {¶ 70} "(2) The assets and liabilities of the spouses; {¶ 71} "(3) The desirability of awarding the family home, or the right to reside in the family home for reasonable periods of time, to the spouse with custody of the children of the marriage; {¶ 72} "(4) The liquidity of the property to be distributed; {¶ 73} "(5) The economic desirability of retaining intact an asset or an interest in an asset; {¶ 74} "(6) The tax consequences of the property division upon the respective awards to be made to each spouse; {¶ 75} "(7) The costs of sale, if it is necessary that an asset be sold to effectuate an equitable distribution of property; {¶ 76} "(8) Any division or disbursement of property made in a separation agreement that was voluntarily entered into by the spouses; {¶ 77} "(9) Any other factor that the court expressly finds to be relevant and equitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A domestic relations court is required, when granting a divorce, to equitably divide and distribute the marital property between the parties. * * * When dividing marital property, the trial court must divide it equally between the parties unless an equal division would be inequitable. * * * In determining what is an equitable division of the marital property, the court must consider `all relevant factors,' including those found in R.C. 3105.171 (F).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(7) The costs of sale, if it is necessary that an asset be sold to effectuate an equitable distribution of property; {¶ 76}”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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