Bowen v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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1. “3. All property owned or income earned or accumulated by either of the parties at the time of their marriage or which the parties may acquire, earn or accumulate hereaf ter, or during their marriage, from any source whatever shall be the separate property of the respective party now owning, earning, accumulating or hereafter acquiring such property, free and clear of any rights, interest, claims or demands of the other ... 5. ... [E]ach party specifically waives any and all right of claim [sic] that such party may at any time have to take any share of the property of the other party under any circumstances whatsoever, with the same force and effect as though single persons before any marriage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bowen v. Bowen

2. “3. All property owned or income earned or accumulated by either of the parties at the time of their marriage or which the parties may acquire, earn or accumulate hereafter, or during their marriage, from any source whatever shall be the separate property of the respective party now owning, earning, accumulating or hereafter acquiring such property, free and clear of any rights, interest, claims or demands of the other.... 5. [E]ach party specifically waives any and all right of [sic] claim that such party may at any time have to take any share of the property of the other party under any circumstances whatsoever, with the same force and effect as though single persons before any marriage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bowen v. Bowen

3. “Once the family court determined the properties were non-marital, it had no jurisdiction to address their ownership or deal with them in any way. See S.C.Code Ann. § 20-7-473 (Supp.1996) (“The [family] court does not have jurisdiction or authority to apportion nonmarital property.”). The parties’ respective interests in the real estate in question must be handled as if the parties were not married. Therefore, that determination must be left for another day.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bowen v. Bowen