Hopper v. Hopper

OPINION

By the Court,

Thompson, J.:

In this case the husband’s separate property, a home, was improved by the construction of a swimming pool paid for by the separate funds of the wife. In a divorce action the trial court, in dividing property, failed to reimburse the wife for the cost of the swimming pool (about $3,000). That court reasoned that the law presumed a gift from the wife to the husband of the swimming pool cost, which presumption was not rebutted. The wife appeals.

In Lombardi v. Lombardi, 44 Nev. 314, 195 P. 93, the husband expended his separate funds to improve his wife’s separate…