Grishman v. Grishman

NICHOLS, Justice.

This appeal raises the novel issue of whether a divorce court may properly treat as marital property, which is to be justly divided in the divorce judgment, an interest in real estate that one party acquired prior to his marriage and at a time when the two parties were unmarried cohabitants.

The Plaintiff, Alan Grishman, is a concert violinist and a professor of music. The Defendant, Nancy E. Grishman, some twelve years his junior, had been employed earlier in the public schools as a guidance counselor. While in graduate school at the University of New Hampshire she worked for…