Shuraleff v. Donnelly

In this action arising after the breakdown of a 14-year nonmarital domestic relationship, both parties appeal the trial court’s division of property. We affirm on the appeal and on the cross-appeal.

The parties met in June, 1973, when plaintiff rented a room in defendant’s residence in Fall Creek. Within a short time they began an intimate relationship and lived together until January, 1989. At the time the relationship began, plaintiff had between ten and fifteen thousand dollars and defendant owned the Fall Creek property, which consisted of five acres and a log house. In 1975 the log house…