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Wis. Stat. § 766.63

Mixed property

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case In Re Sanderfoot (1988)

Most recently applied in Gral v. Estate of Margolis (In re Gral) (March 2017)

1983 a. 186; 1985 a. 37; 1991 a. 301; 2023 a. 127

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(1) Except as provided otherwise in ss. 766.61, 766.62, and 766.625 (2), mixing marital property with property other than marital property reclassifies the other property to marital property unless the component of the mixed property which is not marital property can be traced.

(2) Application by one spouse of substantial labor, effort, inventiveness, physical or intellectual skill, creativity or managerial activity to either spouse’s property other than marital property creates marital property attributable to that application if both of the following apply:

(a) Reasonable compensation is not received for the application.

(b) Substantial appreciation of the property results from the application.

Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.