Under Utah law, the assets must be divided fairly and equitably in a divorce. This does not necessarily mean that assets will simply be split 50/50. The court considers many factors in determining what an appropriate division of a couple's assets is.
For long-term marriages, equitable may mean a 50-50 split, or the court may decide that it is fair to give one party more or less than 50% of the property. For short term marriages, the court may put the people back into the economic position they had before the marriage.
Utah is an equitable distribution state. Essentially, this means that during a divorce, any property (including the marital home) is divided fairly but not always equally.
Marital property is property which is acquired during the marriage. Non-marital property is property which one spouse owns before the marriage, or receives by gift or inheritance during the marriage. If together both spouses receive property by gift or inheritance then it is marital property.
With that said, the general rule, even for short-term marriages, is 50/50 division. However, in some very short-term marriages, the courts may put spouses back into the financial position they were in before the marriage – that is, each spouse gets the asset that belonged to him/her at the beginning of the marriage.
Utah is an equitable division state. Property acquired during marriage becomes part of the marital estate. Property acquired before the marriage remains the separate property of the person who acquired it.
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