The applicant husband and respondent wife separated after a nearly seven-year marriage.
The trial focused on spousal support and the equalization of net family property.
The court imputed a higher income to the husband, finding he intentionally underemployed himself and diverted business to a new company run by his parents.
The wife was awarded retroactive and ongoing spousal support on compensatory and need-based grounds.
For equalization, the court valued the husband's business using an income-based approach, discounted his claimed interfamily loans by 90%, and dismissed his claim that the wife absconded with $100,000 in jewelry.
The husband was ordered to pay an equalization payment of $95,967.85.
