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424 Pa. 120

Shapiro v. Shapiro

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 15, 1966

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1966-11-15

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Decided 1966-11-15

How this case has been cited

Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Stauffer v. Stauffer (1976), Napotnik v. Equibank and Parkvale Savings Association

6 federal appellate · 146 state decisions

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¶1Dissenting Opinion by

Mb. Justice Cohen:

¶2The history of the marital relationship which is recounted in appellant’s brief clearly demonstrates to me that this is not the type of litigation that can be determined by reference to specific interests in specific property.

¶3For some 40 years the wife permitted the husband to completely dominate and direct the involved financial operations of the husband’s business endeavors. To now attempt to unravel and determine the specific ownership of specific pieces of property, to me, appears impossible. The business relationship of this husband and wife is not unlike the relationship that exists in most marriages. Only when that marital relationship sours do unrealistic principles involving the business relationship demand application. I would not apply those unrealistic principles to the facts of this case. I would vacate all previous determinations made in this and in all other extensive and costly litigation indulged in be*140tween this husband and wife, and require of both litigants and counsel that all actions at law be terminated and a settlement of their differences consummated. This case marks the fourth or fifth time the litigants have been before this Court on appeals from lower court action arising out of their marital disputes. Both counsel at argument indicated that they are willing to compromise their differences. I would compel them so to do.

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