Woosnam v. Woosnam

Patricia (plaintiff) owned a home before marrying Kenneth (defendant); after selling it during the marriage, she used the non-marital sale proceeds to help buy the couple's second home, where they lived until separating. The chancellor calculated Patricia's separate interest in the first home, converted it to a percentage of that home's sale price, and awarded her that percentage — but attributed the entire appreciation in the second home's value to the couple's joint marital efforts, without any supporting evidence, and without accounting for ordinary inflation.

Whether a spouse is entitled to restoration of separate property if the spouse used funds from the sale of separate property to purchase a new property during the marriage.