766.60 Optional forms of holding property; survivorship ownership. (1) Spouses may hold marital property in a form that designates the holders of it by the words “(name of one spouse) or (name of other spouse) as marital property”. (2) Spouses may hold marital property in a form that designates the holder of it by the […]
766.605 Classification of homestead. A homestead acquired after the determination date which, when acquired, is held exclusively between spouses with no 3rd party is survivorship marital property if no intent to the contrary is expressed on the instrument of transfer or in a marital property agreement. A homestead may be reclassified under s. 766.31 (10). […]
766.61 Classification of life insurance policies and proceeds. (1) In this section: (a) “Owner” means a person appearing on the records of the policy issuer as the person having the ownership interest, or means the insured if no person other than the insured appears on those records as a person having that interest. In the […]
766.62 Classification of deferred employment benefits. (1) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), a deferred employment benefit attributable to employment of a spouse occurring after the determination date is marital property. (b) A deferred employment benefit attributable to employment of a spouse occurring after the determination date is mixed property if, after the determination […]
766.63 Mixed property. (1) Except as provided otherwise in ss. 766.61 and 766.62, mixing marital property with property other than marital property reclassifies the other property to marital property unless the component of the mixed property which is not marital property can be traced. (2) Application by one spouse of substantial labor, effort, inventiveness, physical […]
766.70 Remedies. (1) A spouse has a claim against the other spouse for breach of the duty of good faith imposed by s. 766.15 resulting in damage to the claimant spouse’s property. Except as otherwise provided in sub. (6), no spouse may commence an action under this subsection later than 6 years after acquiring actual […]
766.73 Invalid marriages. If a marriage is invalidated by a decree, a court may apply so much of this chapter to the property of the parties to the invalid marriage as is necessary to avoid an inequitable result. This section does not apply if s. 767.61 applies to the action to invalidate the marriage. History: […]
766.75 Treatment of certain property at dissolution. After a dissolution each former spouse owns an undivided one-half interest in the former marital property as a tenant in common, except as provided otherwise in a decree or an agreement entered into by the former spouses after dissolution. History: 1983 a. 186; 1985 a. 37.
766.95 Rules of construction. Unless displaced by this chapter, the principles of law and equity supplement its provisions. History: 1983 a. 186.
766.96 Uniformity of application and construction. This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it. History: 1983 a. 186.
766.97 Equal rights; common law disabilities. (1) Women and men have the same rights and privileges under the law in the exercise of suffrage, freedom of contract, choice of residence, jury service, holding office, holding and conveying property, care and custody of children and in all other respects. The various courts and executive and administrative […]
