Legal Opinion

Mondelli v. Howard

Court of Appeals of Tennessee

Decided September 29, 1989Published

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal concerns the manner in which the Chancery Court for Wayne County divided the marital estate of a couple who had been married for approximately six years. The husband insists that the division was not equitable because the trial court did not divide the parties’ debts according to the same percentages it used to divide their assets. While we disagree with the husband’s premise that the marital debts must be divided in exact proportion to the marital assets, we have determined that the division of the marital estate should be modified because of other errors in…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Wallahan v. WallahanSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1979
  2. Beede v. BeedeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1982
  3. Edwards v. EdwardsCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1973
  4. In Re the Marriage of JohnsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1980
  5. Langford v. LangfordTennessee Supreme Court · 1967

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