When buying out a spouse’s business interest, the temptation is to draw funds from the corporation to pay. However, the potential unintended tax consequences of this approach can be both significant and detrimental.
The relationship between a parent and child may be at risk of significant damage in highly contested divorce cases.
A weekly child support obligation that was ordered even after the calculation of the finances showed the noncustodial parent owed a negative amount has been reversed by the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
A divorcing couple must return to court after the Court of Appeals of Indiana determined the mother’s due process rights were violated in previous court proceedings.
A woman who was divorced in a German court can pursue the division of her marital property in an Indiana trial court, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
A woman who didn’t comply with the settlement agreement in her dissolution of marriage decree has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that a trial court erred in granting a motion to enforce settlement.
A trial court did not err in deferring the distribution of a man’s pension to his ex-wife until he retires, but it did err in failing to protect the ex-wife’s portion of the pension, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
A separated couple won’t be seeing any changes to the 47-page order dividing up their marital assets after appeals by both parties were denied by the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana is allowing a woman to pursue the quitclaim deed her former husband had promised after the trial court stopped the proceeding and concluded it no longer had jurisdiction to address the matter because the ex-husband died.
A non-disparagement clause drafted into a couple’s divorce order to prevent the parents from talking badly about each other even outside of the presence of their child was an unconstitutional prior restraint on speech, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled in a partial reversal.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has reversed for a mother who moved from Germany to South Bend with her husband and children, finding she did not wrongfully retain her children in the United States after their father returned to Europe.
Provisional orders governing the affairs of parties in a pending divorce action do not permit trial courts to order the sale of property, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
A father who was found to be voluntarily underemployed after his wife filed for divorce received a partial reversal Friday when the Court of Appeals of Indiana noted questions remained about his job opportunities and earnings level.
A Goshen wife who discovered during divorce proceedings that her husband had actually been married to another woman during their marriage had her decree of annulment overturned after the Court of Appeals of Indiana found the man was not properly notified through a service by summons.
The Indiana Supreme Court has determined a trial court didn’t err in its method of dividing up assets between a divorced Hendricks County couple, parting ways with the opinion of the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
The Boone Superior Court did not err in ordering an unequal division of a former couple’s marital estate, the Court of Appeals of Indiana has ruled.
A $435,000 arbitration award was a money judgment that is subject to discharge in a bankruptcy case, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a dispute between ex-spouses.
By Andrew Z. Soshnick The treatment of trust interests as marital property under Indiana law has an underdeveloped and confusing history. The 1973 Indiana Dissolution of Marriage Act and statutory amendments do not directly address the issue of what trust interests are marital property. Likewise, few appellate opinions attempt to clarify when trust interests are […]
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has partially affirmed and reversed a couple’s dissolution of marriage, ordering the Hancock Circuit Court to recalculate and redetermine a just and reasonable division of the marital estate.
In a divorce dispute that has lasted nearly as long as the marriage, the Court of Appeals of Indiana found the trial court did not abuse its discretion by awarding more assets to the wife than she had originally brought into the union.