North Dakota Supreme Court Affirms Choice of Wife’s Expert’s Value of Dental Practice
Kemmett v. Kemmett, 2024 The Supreme Court of North Dakota reviewed the decree and decisions of the district court in this divorce action. The supreme court upheld the valuation of certain land as it was not clearly erroneous because it was within the range of...
Appellate Court (Ohio) Affirms Trial Court’s Acceptance of Husband’s Expert’s Value of Marital Business and Rejects Wife’s Expert’s Value
Granada v. Rojas, 2024-Ohio-1272; 2024 Adriana Granada appealed from the final decree following her divorce from Israel Rojas. The appellate court affirmed the decision of the trial court. Factual and procedural history. In November 2020, Rojas filed for divorce...
Indiana Appellate Court Remands to Revalue Wife’s Business Supported by the Evidence
Bergquist v. Bergquist, 2024 Trishia Bergquist (the wife) appealed the Indiana Stueben County Circuit Court’s dissolution decree to the Indiana Court of Appeals. Several issues were raised. This digest covers the issue as to whether the circuit court abused its...
Ohio Court of Appeals Affirms the Value of Husband’s Business Based on ‘the Evidence That Was Actually Before the Trial Court’
In this appeal of a divorce case in Ohio, the appellate court affirmed that the trial court, in having independently determined the value of the husband’s business without having instructed the parties to produce evidence to support the value, did not abuse its discretion. The wife did not dispute the specificities of the trial court’s valuation nor challenge the credibility of the husband’s testimony.