# Leftwich v. Leftwich

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · February 5, 1982 · 442 A.2d 139

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9695367

## Case

- **Full name:** Paula Grace Phillips LEFTWICH, Appellant, v. Willie L. LEFTWICH, Appellee
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** February 5, 1982
- **Citations:** 442 A.2d 139; 1982 D.C. App. LEXIS 292
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Ferren
- **Judges:** Ferren, Harris, Kern
- **Cited by:** 36 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- reversing the trial court’s disproportionate division of marital property where the court had failed to state with precision the factors it deemed relevant in reaching its result
- rejecting challenge to court’s verbatim adoption of party’s findings and conclusions but adopting a stricter standard of review

## Opinion text

FERREN, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I join in Judge HARRIS’ opinion for the court but write separately to clarify that, although the wife must have free choice as to whether she “will, or will not, sign a joint tax return with the husband,” ante at 146, the court is entitled to rely on her decision in making its award; and if she were to choose to sign a joint return but later changed her mind, the husband would be entitled to seek modification of the award.

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