IN RE MARRIAGE OF MUHAMMAD

No. 75061-1.

108 P.3d 779 (2005)

153 Wash.2d 795

In the Matter of the MARRIAGE OF Dawud A. MUHAMMAD, Respondent, and Cherry Muhammad, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided March 24, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia S. Novotny, Sara Lyle Ainsworth, Northwest Womens Law Center, Brendan Finucane Patrick, Seattle, for Petitioner.

Leslie Orville Stomsvik, Tacoma, for Respondent.

Narda D. Pierce, Olympia, for Amicus Curiae (Attorney General).

Jennie Rebecca Laird, Seattle Divorce Services, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae (Columbia Legal Services).

Raegen Nicole Rasnic, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae (Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project et al).

Eleanor H. Smith, David B. Byrd, Zuckerman, Spaeder, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae (Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project et al).

Patricia E. Kahn, Green & Yalowitz, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae (Northwest Womens Law Center).

Judith Anne Redford-Hall, Tumwater, for Amicus Curiae (The Battered Women's Justice Project of the Pennsylvania ... and The Nat'l Assn of Women Lawyers Domestic Violence Report).


OWENS, J.

¶ 1 This case concerns the property division that occurred during the dissolution of the marriage of petitioner Cherry Gilbert, formerly known as Cherry Muhammad (Gilbert) and respondent Dawud Muhammad (Muhammad). Unfortunately, it appears the trial court considered marital fault in distributing the parties' property, disfavoring Gilbert because she obtained an order of protection against Muhammad based on...

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