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LIST OF CASE LAW Arnal v. Arnal, 609 S.E.2d 821 (2005) Court of Appeals of South Carolina. Laura Lawton ARNAL, Respondent/Appellant, v. David Emil ARNAL, Appellant/Respondent. No. 3943. Heard Sept. 16, 2004. Decided Feb. 7, 2005. Rehearing Denied March 17, 2005. Certiorari Granted March 23, 2006. Background: Former husband appealed final order of the Family Court, Beaufort County, Robert S. Armstrong, J., granting parties a divorce, dividing marital property, imputing income to him, establishing child support and visitation, and requiring him to pay attorney and guardian ad litem fees. Former wife appealed equitable distribution and determination of marital property. Holdings: The Court of Appeals, Hearn, C.J., held that: (1) imputing income to husband of over $9,000 per month, for calculation of child support, was error; (2) child support guidelines excluded in-kind income to wife in form of below fair market value rent; (3) failure to ascertain whether child's uncovered medical expenditures would have been covered by Medicaid if wife had continued to live in South Carolina was error; (4) evidence regarding corpuses of two trusts of which wife was a beneficiary was relevant to attorney fees and travel reimbursement issues; (5) dividing the pre-trial guardian ad litem fees equally between the parties was not an abuse of discretion; (6) imposing upon husband the entire cost of guardian's fees incurred during trial was error; (7) awarding $65,000 in attorney fees to wife was error; (8) husband should have been awarded Easter and summer visitation with child; (9) husband failed to prove he was entitled to special equity interest in non-marital cemetery property; (10) husband should not have been required to reimburse wife's attorneys for their fees from second contempt hearing; and (11) requiring husband to pay wife his portion of child's uncovered medical expenses within 14 days of receiving an itemization was unreasonable.
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