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Description: Colorado Springs, Colorado family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce.

Wife and husband married in 2013 and have two children. In
2019, husband and wife’s mother purchased a home for the family
to live in together. In 2020, husband moved out of the home and
wife and wife’s mother continued to live there. In 2021, wife
petitioned to dissolve the marriage.

After a hearing, the district court issued a decree of
dissolution and permanent orders. As relevant here, the court
ordered that “[a]ny remaining student loans will be considered
marital debt and the parties will evenly divide liability.” The court
also ordered that the parties would equally split the marital equity
in the home, but it did not determine the value of the home or the
marital equity in it because wife’s mother did not agree with the
parties regarding how much of the equity was marital. Instead, the
court ordered that the parties would “apply” the fifty-fifty division
“once the net marital share is realized.”

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Outcome: Reversed

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