Court Opinion

ID: 9883381
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-06 01:41:20.338613+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:48:17.809922
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WOZNIAK, Judge
(dissenting).
With brevity, the majority concludes that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in ordering appellant to pay equitable restitution. With equal brevity, I conclude that this case is controlled by Ellesmere v. Ellesmere, 359 N.W.2d 48 (Minn.Ct.App.1984), and that the trial court abused its discretion.1

. I further note that in this case the parties owned sufficient assets such that the "just and equitable division of the marital property” mandated by Minn.Stat. § 518.58 (1984) should have *434negated any need for the trial court to make its equitable award of restitution. Also, a strict, mechanical application of the DeLa Rosa formula is not warranted where the parties lived together and accumulated assets for two years following appellant’s graduation, and remained married and accumulating more assets for an additional three years after their separation.