Opinion ID: 2635296
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Imputed Rent

Text: The superior court may impute the rental value of one party's exclusive use of the marital residence after separation to that party when it equitably divides the marital estate between the parties. [8] After Kelly and Connie separated, Kelly lived in the family residence for about twenty-nine months; during most of that time he was awaiting trial on his criminal charges. In dividing the marital property, the superior court treated this period of occupancy as though Kelly had received twenty-nine months' worth of rent from the marital estate. Kelly contends that the trial court should have imputed only eleven percent of the rent to him. But his position hinges on his mistaken premise that eighty-nine percent of the home's equity was his separate property. Because we have rejected that premise, Kelly's challenge to the order imputing rent lacks merit.