31 Mar 2011
GRANT V GRANT HC AK CIV-2010-404-005158
- Citation
- openlaw-80b5dea5_fb43_4410_9369_78f0b2171bbc.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The High Court upheld the Family Court's findings: the College Hill property was, on the balance of probabilities, a gift from the first respondent's mother and retained separate property character; the bundle of rights in the family trust is relationship property but should be valued at the date of hearing using the practical revised valuation approach (net value accepted $369,000); the appellant failed to prove post-separation mortgage increases or advances warranted adjustment to the valuation; and there was insufficient evidence to treat the marina berth as relationship property. The appe…