Wagner v. Wagner
Premarital student loans are martial debts as they were consolidated with student loans incurred during the marriage and cannot be extricated.
Dombrowski v. Dombrowski
Pledge to charity is not a marital debt, even though the pledge constituted an enforceable obligation.
McCord v. McCord
Excessive mileage fees for car lease is marital debt.
Vonderhaar-Ketron v. Ketron
Law school debts were separate where divorce proceedings started one year after husband passed bar exam.
Spheeris v. Spheeris
Trial court properly excluded contingent liabilities.
In Re Marriage of Weiss v. Weiss
(1) Debts incurred after start of action do not reduce the marital estate. (2) College expenses for children over 18 is not a joint marital debt.
Marriage of Torgerson v. Torgerson
Trial court is powerless to order husband’s name removed from the mortgage.
In Re Marriage of Laribee v. Laribee
Where husband paid $75,000 to parents just before commencement of divorce action, $30,000 was proper repayment of loan, but trial court properly found that the $45,000 in interest should be returned to the marital estate. No abuse of discretion in not ordering interest on the $45,000 for the time it was in husband’s parent’s possession.
In Re Marriage of Popp v. Popp
Exclusion of contingent liabilities affirmed.
Park Bank-West v. Mueller
Failure of bank to give notice to wife that husband took out loan during marriage does not prevent bank from collecting from wife after husband’s death.