Court Opinion

ID: 9697862
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 19:34:46.41679+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:36.246261
License: Public Domain

WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I concur. The date of separation, in my judgment, was the date contemplated by the legislature for the evaluation of *222marital assets in divorce actions. See: 23 Pa.C.S. § 3501(a). This is particularly so in cases where one spouse owns and operates a business. The other spouse should neither benefit from nor be prejudiced by the individual activity of the business-operating spouse after separation. To permit the value of the business to be increased or reduced following separation because of the individual efforts of the working spouse is to encourage an unfair result, prolong the acrimony between spouses, prevent each spouse from getting on with his or her life, and discourage individual effort following separation.