261 N.C. App. 94 - Watson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 111 N.C. App. 460 - Smith v. Smith · Smith v. Smith · 210 N.C. App. 319 - Robinson v. Robinson · 205 N.C. App. 405 - Stovall v. Stovall · 149 N.C. App. 723 - Walter v. Walter
Most-quoted passages
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“Where the trial court decides that an unequal distribution is equitable, the court must exercise its discretion to decide how much weight to give each factor supporting an unequal distribution. A single distributional factor may support an unequal division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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