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their marriage, from 1973 until 1982. In 1982, Mr. Heitzman
moved to Phoenix, Arizona, to pursue a business development
opportunity with a startup company called Autocast, which had
been formed to manufacture concrete products for the housing
industry. In 1983, petitioner and Mr. Heitzman were divorced.
They had no children together.
In 1975, Mr. Heitzman and petitioner bought a house in
Honolulu, which served as their residence. It was their only
joint investment during their marriage. Mr. Heitzman made all
his other investment decisions without input from petitioner.
Although petitioner worked part time as a model and received
residuals from the Screen Actors Guild in 1979 for a television
commercial, Mr. Heitzman was the primary breadwinner. In 1979,
Mr. Heitzman was employed by TSI Corporation as a real estate
developer. He was also general partner in DMA Heitzman, which
developed condominium projects.
Petitioner made no independent investments during her
marriage. In 1975, petitioner completed her high school
education by obtaining her General Education Diploma. Petitioner
never took any accounting or bookkeeping courses.2
2 Petitioner’s only other training was two real estate sales
workshops she took in preparation for an attempt to become a real
estate agent. Petitioner failed the licensing examination the
first time partly because of her inadequate arithmetic skills.
On her second attempt, she passed the exam. Aside from the sale
of a condominium, the listing for which was given to her at Mr.
Heitzman’s behest, petitioner never participated in the sale of
any real estate as a real estate agent. Petitioner did not find
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