Mattern v. Mattern’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “(We take occasion to observe that there would be no way to have the fact of anticipated receipt in the future of military retirement pay by one or both the parties concealed from a judge trying a divorce case. Certainly the fact would bear upon the relative circumstances and resources in which the parties to a divorce case will find themselves upon and after dissolution of their marriage. In the disposition of any (other) property of the parties to be divided a trial court cannot help but consider the fact of known contingent future assets to be received by one of the parties over and above those, if any, to be received by the other.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 97 Wash. 2d 831 - In Re the Marriage of Dessauer