256 Mich. App. 420 - Gates v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 2009
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Liteky et al United States · Withrow v. Larkin · Johnson v. Mississippi · Spalding v. Spalding · Cain v Department of Corrections
Most-quoted passages
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“considered the reality of the situation surrounding ownership of [a] house and who made payments on [it] and awarded the property to [the] plaintiff at a zero value, because the $58,559 equity in the home was achieved solely through payments made by [the plaintiff's brother and sister-in-law].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the trial court's findings are not clearly erroneous, this Court must then decide whether the dispositional ruling was fair and equitable in light of the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thornton v. Thornton
How this case has been treated — in progress
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