Opinion ID: 2520463
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Talkeetna cabin

Text: The superior court determined that a cabin in Talkeetna used by the family for recreation was marital property and awarded it to Judy. Ernest claims that this home is not marital property because he began purchasing it in 1994 and had paid it off in full one month before he married Judy in 1996. Under the standard governing property acquired during premarital cohabitation that we articulated in Murray and Faulkner, the superior court did not err when it concluded that property acquired after the parties began living together in 1986 was marital property. This is true of the cabin in Talkeetna. Moreover, Judy claims that the couple bought the cabin together and used it for recreation. She presented evidence at trial that she had paid taxes on the cabin in 1998. The superior court found that the family had used the Talkeetna cabin for recreation. The superior court also found that Judy and Ernest originally put the cabin in Cody's name and that Ernest had acted on Cody's behalf to quitclaim the cabin back to himself without Judy's knowledge in 2002. The superior court concluded that [p]lacing [the cabin] in Cody's name was merely a convenience and a reflection that it was a family asset eventually to be passed on to the couple's children. These findings were supported by the record and were not clearly erroneous.