Property of the Parties & Women’s Rights
Diversion of Funds
Trial judge denied wife’s motion to stay a divorce action until separate actions the wife filed against her husband and others were resolved, even though the wife claimed in her separate actions that the husband had diverted funds from a corporation she owned and that the husband’s action affected the parties’ marital property. Partipilo v. Partipilo
Personal Injury
A separate trial within the dissolution proceeding to decide the issue of damages claimed for transmission of a sexually transmitted disease is not authorized by this Act; the proper method of obtaining such relief would be a separate personal injury action. Foran v. Foran
Consolidation of Action
Chancery court could have considered that, in the absence of any action seeking to reopen 1973 domestic relations case in 1983, nothing was pending in which transfer or consolidation to domestic relations division of divorce action would have been proper. In re Mercer
Trusts
Where the wife’s eligibility to receive a portion of a trust was an expectancy contingent upon the discretion of the trustee or upon his intestate death and not a realization, the circuit court erred when it apportioned the interest to her as a current asset. In re Eddy
