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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Worthen finds the trial court improperly granted the ex-wife's post-divorce decree motion for contempt and enforcement. A liquidated damages provision created a remedy for failure to timely deliver property by awarding the entire fair market value of the property. When the court applied this, it awarded proceeds of previously divided property, shifting them entirely from the husband to the wife. This goes beyond enforcement, resulting in the husband’s divestment of proceeds. Vacated.
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