Berish v. Berish

The sole issue presented in this case is whether a trial court, in determining divorce litigants’ inter se property rights in a joint savings account accumulated during marriage, abused its discretion when it based its award upon the account balance in existence at the time of the parties’ permanent separation rather than upon the balance in existence at the time of the final decree.

This court has long recognized that trial courts are vested with broad powers in determining the appropriate scope of property awards in divorce actions. As was stated in the recent case of Cherry v. Cherry…