Sands v. Sands

This is a divorce case in which the defendant husband attempted to conceal assets of the marital estate. The circuit' court divided the marital assets equally between the parties, but directed the defendant to pay seventy percent of the plaintiff wife’s attorney fees, in light of the defendant’s "devious and deceptive conduct” during the circuit court proceedings.

The Court of Appeals found that the circuit court erred in dividing the assets equally. It said that the defendant must forfeit his interest in assets that he attempted to hide. We affirm that judgment in the present case, but…