The Court of Appeals in Boyd v. Boyd, for the first time analyzed and addressed whether an inchoate personal injury claim during the marriage is considered a marital property or a sole and separate property. Shortly before divorce was finalized, the wife had incurred an accident giving rise to a personal injury claim which was not yet initiated or resolved. The trial court there had held that an inchoate personal injury claim was not a marital asset because there was: No way of valuing it, and that Pain and suffering from the accident were “intensely personal,” and any recovery for
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