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an annual salary of $90,000.5 As of that time, Mr. Korchak had
no intention of retiring.
Based on their respective personal and business backgrounds
and experiences, petitioner and Mr. Korchak believed throughout
their marriage that managing their family’s finances should be
Mr. Korchak’s responsibility and that Mr. Korchak was better
suited than petitioner to do so. Petitioner and Mr. Korchak also
believed throughout their marriage that maintaining their home
and rearing their three children6 should be petitioner’s respon-
sibility and that petitioner was better suited than Mr. Korchak
to do so. Consequently, throughout the marriage of petitioner
and Mr. Korchak, (1) Mr. Korchak assumed the responsibility of
managing their family’s finances, and petitioner relied upon him
to do so; and (2) petitioner assumed the responsibility of
maintaining their home and rearing their three children, and Mr.
Korchak relied on her to do so.
As part of his responsibility for managing the family’s
finances, Mr. Korchak made all the family’s financial decisions.
He did so without discussing those decisions with petitioner. If
5During 2004, the year before the trial took place, Mr.
Korchak received a salary of $91,000 from Performance and the
following income: (1) A distribution of $13,586 from an individ-
ual retirement account (IRA), (2) $19,166 of Social Security
payments, and (3) a distribution of $26,981 from a pension.
6The three children of petitioner and Mr. Korchak were born
in 1965, 1967, and 1969, respectively.
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