82 Ark. App. 17 - Powell v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Kuchmas v. Kuchmas (2006), 2009 Ark. App. 208 - Evtimov v. Milanova (2009)
27 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 McKay v. McKay · Box v. Box · Layman v. Layman · 71 Ark. App. 33 - Jablonski v. Jablonski · 70 Ark. App. 240 - Holaway v. Holaway
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]t is true that there is a presumption that an increase in the value of nonmari-tal property resulting from the time, efforts, and skill of a spouse is regarded as a marital asset. However, a mere reduction in a single item of indebtedness is not the same thing as an increase in the overall value of the property, which would require evidence of the fair-market value of the farm both before and after the marriage. There is evidence in the present case regarding the value of the farm at the time of the divorce, but we find nothing in the record that would allow the trial judge to determine the premarital value of the farm. Without evidence of the before- and-after value of the property to show the existence and extent of any increase in the value of the nonmarital property, any reduction in debt on nonmarital property is not considered to be marital property to be divided equally; instead, the non-owning spouse is simply entitled to have the martial contribution considered in balancing the equities involved in the property division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.