Kakinami v. Kakinami

Opinion of the Court by

RECKTENWALD, C.J.

Aaron Kakinami challenges the Family Court of the Fifth Circuit’s Supplemental Divorce Decree, on the ground that the family court erred in not awarding him a share of Bonnie Kakinami’s Marital Separate Property.1 Aaron also argues that the family court improperly modified the Supplemental Divorce Decree after he filed his Notice of Appeal by compelling him to pay Bonnie a net share of her interest in the marital residence by a certain date.

Briefly stated, Aaron and Bonnie were married in 1980. In 2006 Bonnie filed a complaint for divorce, alleging the…