Lawyer v. Lawyer

In Day v. Day, 281 Ark. 261, 663 S.W.2d 719 (1984), this court took a significant step forward in interpreting marital property under Ark. Stat. Ann. § 34-1214 (1985 Supp.), modelling our approach after the case of In re Marriage of Brown, 15 Cal.3rd 838, 126 Cal.Rept. 633, 544 P.2d 561 (1976). In Day v. Day we pointed out that we were not adopting an inflexible rule with respect to pension plans, but that our marital property law allows leeway for the exercise of the chancellor’s best judgment in providing that “all marital property shall be divided equally unless the court finds such a…