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Are Breast Implants and Donated Organs Marital Assets?

By Bruce Carton

ac·ri·mo·ni·ous di·vorce (?k'r?-m?'n?-?s d?-vôrs): A legal dissolution of a marriage accompanied by a request that the former spouse's breast implants or donated organs be treated as marital assets. Okay, I made that definition up, but you must admit that things are getting a bit out-of-hand in divorce proceedings when the husband demands that the $5,500 spent on his wife's breast implants be counted as marital assets, entitling him to additional property in the breakup (and then takes this claim to the state's Supreme Court when the lower court mocks him). That is exactly what is going on in Isaacson v. Isaacson, in which Erik Isaacson is claiming that the value of Traci Isaacson's implants should be counted when the divorcing couple splits up its assets. He also claimed her Lasik eye surgery, valued at $1,000, should be counted. According to a transcript of the initial proceedings before South Central District of North Dakota Judge Robert Wefald, however, Judge Wefald was not persuaded by Mr. Isaacson. Judge Wefald reportedly found that the implant-related claim was "absolutely nonsense," stating that "I can't imagine people would actually waste time thinking that breast implants are marital assets. It just defies common sense. I don't...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).