Posts Tagged ‘Gifts’
If your husband gives you jewelry during the marriage, can he take them back if you get divorced? A closer look at the Marie Douglas David Divorce
According to the Hartford Courant, Swedish Countess Marie Douglas David listed her weekly expenses as being more than $53,000 or about $212,000 per month in her financial affidavit, in anticipation of a divorce from UTC chairman George David. She also listed her assets to include $5,000 in jewelry. That's right five thousand. How can that [...]
How to handle marital gifts
This is easy. If you received gifts for or after your marriage, these gifts belong to both you and your spouse equally, unless the third party who bestowed the gift made it clear that the gift was for only one of the spouses. Absent a showing that the gift was intended to be for only one spouse (rebuttable presumption test) then the gift, if [...]
Marital Gifts: Why Long Island surgeon Dr. Batista’s kidney belongs to them both
There is a case in New York, Nassau County, about a surgeon Dr. Richard Batista and his wife Dawnell Batista. Dr. Batista wants over $1 million dollars from his wife as a divorce settlement. That is because a few years back he gave her one of his kidneys and she later betrayed him and had an affair with another man. She denies the affair, as does [...]
Long Island doctor wants his kidney back as part of the divorce settlement
This one will be filed in our "weird divorce news" category, no doubt. But word from Page Six is that Long Island vascular surgeon Richard Batista is suing his wife for divorce and a part of his divorce petition where he asks for "equitable distribution" he is asking for his kidney back. It seems the good doctor had given his wife one of his [...]
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