Court Opinion

ID: 9720706
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:39:43.015373+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:20.727432
License: Public Domain

CHEZEM, Judge,
concurring in result.
I concur in result because I do not agree that an advanced degree is not a marital asset. Further discussion is necessary regarding the value of an advanced degree or other enhancements of a party's earning ability. This case, however, does not necessitate that discussion.
Rather than merely finding the wife's advanced degree to have been an asset of the marriage, the trial court should have compared the wife's ability to earn and years of work life expectancy against the husband's as the rationale for awarding the husband his pension.
Therefore, I do not concur with the discussion of the division of the marital property.