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Developer recorded a subdivision declaration stating that all lots in Pine Ridge "shall be used for single-family res...
Developer recorded a subdivision declaration stating that all lots in Pine Ridge "shall be used for single-family residential purposes only and no commercial business shall be conducted on any lot." Each original deed fr...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law real-property principles
A subdivision declaration recorded by the developer restricts all lots to residential use. A later buyer with record...
A subdivision declaration recorded by the developer restricts all lots to residential use. A later buyer with record notice begins operating a commercial event venue on a lot. A neighbor seeks an injunction. Which rule i...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline
A divorce decree divided marital property and ordered one spouse to pay monthly maintenance until further order of th...
A divorce decree divided marital property and ordered one spouse to pay monthly maintenance until further order of the court. Two years later, the payor spouse involuntarily loses a job and obtains new employment at subs...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 316, 319
County adopts an 18-month moratorium on new subdivision approvals while it studies traffic and water-capacity limits....
County adopts an 18-month moratorium on new subdivision approvals while it studies traffic and water-capacity limits. Landowner claims the moratorium is automatically a compensable taking because it temporarily prevents...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
Spouses live in a community-property state. Before marriage, Spouse M owned a small apartment building subject to a m...
Spouses live in a community-property state. Before marriage, Spouse M owned a small apartment building subject to a mortgage. During the marriage, the spouses used Spouse M's wages to pay $60,000 of principal on the mort...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marital Property Act sections 4, 17
Spouses live in a community-property state. During the marriage, one spouse earns wages and uses those wages to buy a...
Spouses live in a community-property state. During the marriage, one spouse earns wages and uses those wages to buy a vehicle titled only in that spouse's name. At divorce, the earning spouse claims the vehicle is separa...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marital Property Act section 4
Spouse A and Spouse B divorced in State D. The State D divorce decree awarded Spouse A a fixed $80,000 property-equal...
...State D. The State D divorce decree awarded Spouse A a fixed $80,000 property-equalization payment, awarded Spouse A $20,000 in already-accrued unpaid temporary support, and ordered Spouse B to pay $1,500 per month in f...
Citations: U.S. Constitution Article IV, Section 1, 28 U.S.C. 1738, Judgment finality principles
A divorce decree awarded Spouse A the marital residence and ordered Spouse A to pay Spouse B $200,000 over five years...
...ed Spouse A to pay Spouse B $200,000 over five years as an equalizing property payment. The decree also ordered Spouse A to pay Spouse B $3,000 per month in spousal maintenance until further order of the court. The decre...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 316, 319
A payor spouse falls six months behind on court-ordered maintenance, then files a motion to reduce future payments af...
A payor spouse falls six months behind on court-ordered maintenance, then files a motion to reduce future payments after an involuntary job loss. The payor asks the court to erase the six months of unpaid maintenance....
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 316
A state uses equitable distribution in divorce. One spouse argues that the judge must divide every marital asset exac...
A state uses equitable distribution in divorce. One spouse argues that the judge must divide every marital asset exactly 50-50 because the word equitable means equal. Which statement best describes equitable distribut...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 307
After 18 years of marriage, Spouse A filed for divorce from Spouse B in a state that uses equitable distribution. Bef...
After 18 years of marriage, Spouse A filed for divorce from Spouse B in a state that uses equitable distribution. Before the marriage, Spouse A owned a brokerage account worth $90,000. During the marriage, Spouse A de...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 307, 308
After a 22-year marriage, one spouse earns $180,000 per year. The other spouse left paid employment for 15 years to c...
After a 22-year marriage, one spouse earns $180,000 per year. The other spouse left paid employment for 15 years to care for the household and now needs education to return to work. The lower-earning spouse seeks spou...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act section 308
After divorce became likely, one spouse secretly spent $40,000 of marital savings on gambling trips and gifts to a ro...
After divorce became likely, one spouse secretly spent $40,000 of marital savings on gambling trips and gifts to a romantic partner. At trial, the spouse argues the court cannot consider the money because it has alrea...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Before marriage, Spouse owned a small business worth $80,000. During the marriage, Spouse worked full-time in the bus...
...use argues that the entire business and all appreciation are separate property because the business existed before marriage. Which statement is most accurate? The question tests the marital claim to appreciation generate...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
During a 16-year marriage, one spouse earned wages and contributed part of those wages to a retirement account titled...
.... At divorce, the employee spouse argues that the account is separate property because the other spouse never worked for the employer. What is the best classification? The question tests basic classification of a retirem...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
During marriage, a spouse receives a $100,000 inheritance from a parent and places the money in a separate account ti...
...rriage. Which statement is most accurate? The question tests separate-property classification for inherited funds and the effect of commingling. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
During marriage, one spouse worked full-time and paid household expenses while the other spouse attended medical scho...
During marriage, one spouse worked full-time and paid household expenses while the other spouse attended medical school and obtained a medical degree. At divorce, the working spouse asks the court to divide the degree...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Fiance owned a successful medical-device company before marriage. Three days before the wedding, Fiance presented Fia...
...rital agreement. The agreement stated that each spouse would keep all property titled in that spouse's name, that Fiancee waived any claim to alimony, and that neither spouse had to disclose financial information. Fiance...
Citations: Uniform Premarital Agreement Act sections 2, 6, Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act sections 9, 10, NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Spouses married for 12 years. Both worked until the final year of the marriage, when Spouse X secretly withdrew $70,0...
Spouses married for 12 years. Both worked until the final year of the marriage, when Spouse X secretly withdrew $70,000 from a joint savings account and lost most of it gambling during weekend trips. Spouse X also tra...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 307, 308
Owner owned two adjoining rural parcels: Frontacre, which bordered a public road, and Backacre, which had no road fro...
...ny easement was personal to Owner and that, even if it exists, the subdivision ended it. Discuss the parties' rights. Address creation and character of the easement, whether the benefit and burden passed to successors, w...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law real-property principles
City's comprehensive plan designates the North Corridor for medium-density residential development, with neighborhood...
...cel owned by Developer B, located in the middle of a single-family subdivision far from any major intersection, to allow a convenience store. The planning staff warned that Developer B's rezoning was inconsistent with th...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Common law zoning principles
Jordan and Morgan obtained a marriage license in State C. The license expired 30 days later. Forty days after issuanc...
...orized officiant mean there was no marriage. Morgan seeks divorce and property division. Discuss how the court should resolve the validity issue. This question tests ceremonial marriage formalities and the difference bet...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act sections 201, 207