Schwartz v. Haas

This proceeding is before us for a second time. In Schwartz v. Seldin-Schwartz, 165 Vt. 499, 685 A.2d 665 (1996), we held that the family court was without authority in a divorce case to award a money judgment to husband even in the face of findings that wife wrongfully diverted assets from the marital estate she shared with her seriously disabled spouse. See id. at 503-04, 685 A.2d at 667-68. On remand, the family court took up our mandate to reconsider both its maintenance and property settlement awards, see id. at 504, 685 A.2d at 668, and entered a decree that signifi cantly resembles its…