Pregnancy Is Not Duress for Pre-Nup Defense
Tennessee case summary on pre-nuptial agreements (pre-nups) and property division classification in divorce. Prenuptial Agreement Held Valid and Enforceable Barbara Matthews Law v. Halbert Grant Law, Jr. The husband and wife in this Hamilton County, Tennessee, case executed a prenuptial agreement the day before their 1992 marriage. The wife filed for divorce in 2017. The […]
Read More»Husband Gets 27% of Wife’s Teacher Pension as Agreed
Tennessee case summary on pension and retirement division in divorce. Robert Martin Thompson v. Christie Lee Thompson For more discussion of this case, and the financial principles involved, see Rob Vance’s guest blog, Application of the Coverture Fraction to a Deferred Distribution of a Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (“TCRS”) Pension Plan. The husband in this […]
Read More»Wife Gets Share of Husband’s Railroad Pension, But Court Must Use Correct Language
Tennessee case summary on pension division in divorce. Stacy Renee Lofton v. James Warren Lofton This was the second divorce for this Obion County, Tennessee, couple. They were remarried in 2009, but the wife filed for divorce in 2019. She was granted a divorce on the grounds of inappropriate marital conduct in 2020. The trial […]
Read More»Divorce Settlement Not Subject to Reformation Due to Alleged Mistake
Tennessee case summary post-divorce. Cynthia Lawrence v. Thomas Lawrence The husband and wife in this Shelby County, Tennessee, case were married in 1989 and had four children. The wife filed for divorce in 2017, and the parties successfully mediated the case, and the trial court approved their agreement in 2018. The next year, the wife […]
Read More»Husband Played “Hide and Seek” With Cattle During Divorce
Tennessee alimony divorce case summary after 25 years married. Brent Landon Carter v. Shannon Dale Carter The husband and wife in this Overton County, Tennessee, case were married in 1995, and had two children, both of whom have reached the age of majority. The husband and wife lived on a 212-acre farm owned by the […]
Read More»Husband Must Pay Wife 1/2 of Car Restored During Marriage
Tennessee case summary on divorce. Kacy Collums Davis v. Richard E. Davis, Jr. The husband and wife were married in 2003 and had five children, the eldest of which were from the wife’s first marriage and adopted by the husband. They separated in 2013 and the wife filed for divorce in 2013 in Shelby County, […]
Read More»Gift of Real Estate Partnership Was Marital Property When Gifted During Marriage
Tennessee case summary on property division, classification, and valuation in divorce. Carolyn Diane Long v. Steven Lawrence Long The wife filed for divorce in Cumberland County, Tennessee, in 2014. The trial court divided the parties’ property and there was a first appeal to the Tennessee Court of Appeals, which remanded the case to Judge Larry […]
Read More»TN CLE: Marital Balance Sheets by Anderson & Mason
How Not to Lose Your Footing in the Marital Estate: Building a Marital Balance Sheet and Making it Work for Your Client Now available on demand from the TBA CLE online! Click the title above for more information. Miles Mason, Sr. and Kate Anderson of the Miles Mason Family Group discuss the importance of marital balance […]
Read More»Marital Assets Divided Equally Despite Wife Bringing House to Marriage
Tennessee case summary on property division in divorce. Tracy Marie Haltom v. Gregory Wayne Haltom The wife in this Rutherford County, Tennessee, case filed for divorce in 2017 after twelve years of marriage. There were no children, and neither party asked for alimony. They agreed to the division of many assets, but were unable to […]
Read More»Not Dissipation of Assets Transferring to Joint Account w/ Son
Tennessee case summary on dissipation and appreciation of separate property in divorce. Lori Ann Amacher v. Stanley Dwight Amacher The husband and wife in this Franklin County, Tennessee, case were married in 1981. They had two children, both of whom had reached the age of majority prior to their 2014 divorce. The husband had formed […]
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