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Appeals court considers which date to value assets in long-running Fortis divorce

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Summary

The appeal challenges the trial court’s use of the divorce-judgment date to value marital assets after an eight-year proceeding; the husband asks the court to use an earlier date (child’s emancipation or sale-related dates) or to remand for recalculation.

The Appeals Court heard argument in the divorce appeal of Eugene Fortis v. Beth Fortis over whether the trial court erred in using the judgment date to value marital assets after an extended, eight-year litigation.

Appellant counsel Jack P. Milgram said the judge should have used an earlier date — the son's 18th birthday (April 6, 2017), the date of a stipulation to sell (February 2018), or…

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