GRISHMAN v. GRISHMAN


407 A.2d 9 (1979)

Alan GRISHMAN v. Nancy E. GRISHMAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

October 22, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick H. Potter, Saco (orally), Cole & Daughan by Francis P. Daughan, Wells, for plaintiff.

J. Armand Gendron, Sanford (orally), Patrick L. J. Veilleux, Kittery, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and POMEROY, WERNICK, GODFREY and NICHOLS, JJ.


NICHOLS, Justice.

This appeal raises the novel issue of whether a divorce court may properly treat as marital property, which is to be justly divided in the divorce judgment, an interest in real estate that one party acquired prior to his marriage and at a time when the two parties were unmarried cohabitants.

The Plaintiff, Alan Grishman, is a concert violinist and a professor of music. The Defendant, Nancy E. Grishman, some twelve years his junior, had been...

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