Global Policy Partners v. Yessin
Accessing wife’s email was not an unlawful interception of communications under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
State v. Smith
Cite 72 Wis. 2d 711, 242 N.W.2d 184 (1976) Summary If an oral communication is lawfully intercepted because of the consent of a party to the conversation, but is otherwise inadmissible into evidence in a criminal prosecution due to a failure to comply with statutory requirements, such deficiency does not require the additional suppression of…
Marriage of Schinner v. Schinner
No error for trial court to fail to award wife interest on pre- and post- trial earnings of the fund from the date of valuation, where the result was a significant tax savings to her.
In Re Marriage of Taylor v. Taylor
Where marital settlement agreement awarded wife 35% of husband’s retirement and wife is not entitled to the dollar sum as of date of divorce where market went down substantially prior to division. The stipulation was unambiguous that wife agreed to assume a proportionate share of gains and losses.
Bussewitz v. Bussewitz
Alimony, child support and attorney fees are in the nature of support and are not part of the property division.
Van Wyk v. Van Wyk
Abuse of discretion to order a property division in lieu of maintenance in a long marriage. The order required wife to invade the corpus of her estate while there was no provision for support, education or training.
In Re Marriage of Weiss v. Weiss
Maintenance and property division are interdependent and cannot be made in a vacuum. Therefore, when property division is remanded, so is maintenance.
Overson v. Overson
The same asset cannot be considered for both maintenance and property division.
Marriage of Xiong v. Vang
Trial court properly found that the parties’ relationship qualified as a putative marriage.
Marriage of Roghan Wenzel v. Wenzel
Chapter 767 does not prohibit civil sanctions for frivolous proceedings under Wis. Stat. §802.05. Trial court reversed by applying the requirements of Holbrook, rather than the civil law requirements.