72 N.C. App. 205 - Loeb v. Loeb’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 81 N.C. App. 159 - Lawing v. Lawing (1986), Armstrong v. Armstrong (1988)
58 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Painter v. Painter · Jolly v. Wright · Mims v. Mims · Krause v. Krause · State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. Public Staff-North Carolina Utilities Commission
Most-quoted passages
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“Instead, the statute is a legislative enactment of public policy so strongly favoring the equal division of marital property that an equal division is made mandatory “unless the court determines that an equal division is not equitable.” N.C.G.S. 50-20(c). The clear intent of the legislature was that a party desiring an unequal division of marital property bear the burden of producing evidence concerning one or more of the twelve factors in the statute and the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that an equal division would not be equitable. Therefore, if no evidence is admitted tending to show that an equal division would be inequitable, the trial court must divide the marital property equally. [Emphasis in original.] When evidence tending to show that an equal division of marital property would not be equitable is admitted, however, the trial court must exercise its discretion in assigning the weight each factor should receive in any given case. It must then make an equitable division of the marital property by balancing the evidence presented by the parties in light of the legislative policy which favors equal division. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acquired by [plaintiff] before marriage or acquired by [plaintiff] by bequest, devise, descent, or gift during the course of the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Johnson“Sharp, Equitable Distribution in North Carolina: A Preliminary Analysis, 61 N.C.L.Rev. 247, 249 (1983) (footnote omitted). Pursuant to the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Johnson
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