Yates v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “In a dissolution proceeding, the trial court is required to determine the status, either separate or marital, of all property owned by the parties, and to dispose of it in accordance with the provisions of the statute. Section 452.330.1 RSMo (Supp.1983). The purpose is to avoid any need for future litigation. Wife was awarded $80,000 by the decree. The matter of the sale had been brought to the attention of the trial court, and the judgment is final as to the property division decreed therein. As there are no allegations of undistributed property, matters between husband and wife concerning the property are res judicata.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dahn v. Dahn

2. “Both parties attempted to use the sale of the equipment as a factor in the property division; husband claiming he should be made whole by receiving a credit of one-half the value of the property sold, and wife claiming the sales were due to husband’s failure to make the court-ordered payments.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dahn v. Dahn