Joe was a 48-year-old wealthy businessman when he began dating Celeste, 22. He a

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Joe was a 48-year-old wealthy businessman when he began dating Celeste, 22. He asked her to move in with him, but she refused, saying she didn’t want to do it unless they were going to have a long-range, permanent husband/wife type of relationship. She later moved in with him, and they reached an agreement wherein she would prepare meals, manage the home, and arrange for remodeling. Joe earned the income and managed the investments. A key part of the agreement was to try to have children together.She alleged that they understood that all property acquired would be treated as joint property. They had a son a couple of years later. The next year they married. Four years later they had twins. Two years later, Celeste filed for divorce and claimed all property should be equitably divided, including Joe’s property before they cohabited. Joe argued that he should not have to share any property because a contract between nonmarital 214 Part Two Contracts partners is invalid if sexual acts form part of the consideration, and the promise to bear children n

necessarily involved sexual intercourse. Will Joe have to divide his property? Explain.

Explanation / Answer

Here,nonmarital property is one of the more complicated aspects of divorce.Rules do exist regarding the other spouse's right to share of such assets.

Joe had to devide his property with Celeste.Offcourse they started with agreement,later they married.In a proper way this is not the right marriage.But, Whatever he is having, he had to share it with Celeste.They both lived for couple of years and bear children .He earned before marriage,need not to share with her,but earned after marriage had to share.Spouse is having right to share the property's value at the time of divorse. But using this nonmarital 214,using her only for sexual intercourse and after leaving her with children is not at all the proper way.Marriges like this and later divorse ,even courts cant justify for people like this.

Even though it an agreement.or using nonmarital 214 ,joe had to share atleast some of his property with celeste.

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