Legal Opinion
Dugan v. Dugan
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided February 28, 1983PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
SCHREIBER, J.
This case involves the equitable distribution of marital property upon divorce, more particularly the evaluation of an attorney’s goodwill in his exclusively owned professional corporation.
Plaintiff, James P. Dugan, and defendant, Rosaleen M. Du-gan, were married in 1958 and separated in 1978. They had no children. The plaintiff, a member of the New Jersey Bar, carries on his practice as a professional corporation. The defendant had served as a secretary in plaintiff’s law office and attended college during the marriage, graduating in…
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