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Equity in marital home correctly calculated

The trial court applied the correct burden of proof to determine the parties’ interests in the marital home’s equity. It is not wife’s burden to prove marital contributions caused the increased value in the marital home. Rather, husband, as the owning spouse, has the burden of disproving causation once wife, as the non-owning spouse, shows “the ...