Marriage of McReath v. McReath

¶ 1. In this divorce case, we address *157whether there is or should be a rule that excludes the value of salable professional goodwill from divisible property. The husband, Tim, is a dentist with an orthodontic practice that he acquired early on in this long-term marriage. Tim argues that the circuit court erred as a matter of law when it treated the professional goodwill portion of the valuation of his practice as divisible property. Tim contends that although he could sell his practice for just over one million dollars, most of that amount is attributable to non-divisible professional…