Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: of Sullins, 715 N.W.2d 242, 248 (Iowa 2006); Imagnu v. Wodajo, 85 Md. App. 208, 582 A.2d 590 (1990); Webster v. Webster, 271 Neb. 788, 716 N.W.2d 47, 52 (2006); Stiel v. Stiel, 348 S.W.3d 879, 885-86 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2011); Brockway v. Brockway, 921 P.2d 1104 (Wyo. 1996). 22 Hartley v. Hartley, 205 P.3d 342, 352 (Alaska 2009) ("We have consistently recognized that the superior court is in the best position to assess each party's circumstances and to determine what division of property is most equitable."); In re Marriage of Brown, 15 Cal. 3d 838, 126 Cal. Rptr. 633, 544 P.2d 561, 567 (1976); In re Marriage of Hunt, 909 P.2d 525, 538 (Colo. 1995) ("The method adopted may vary with the facts in each case." (citations omitted)); Bender v. Bender, 258 Conn. 733, 785 A.2d 197, 216 (2001) (<HOLDING>); Forrester v. Forrester, 953 A.2d 175, 186
Holding statements: (A) holding that the method used to distribute retirement benefits was properly a matter within the trial courts discretion (B) recognizing offset method (C) holding it is within the trial courts discretion to choose on a casebycase basis the method although expressly rejecting the reserved jurisdiction method (D) recognizing this method of submission (E) recognizing this method
A:
(C)