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il partition action. When determining the equity of the distribution, the court also has broad discretion to consider the case's most salient facts. The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands further refined the court's discretion to divide property by eliminating marital fault as a factor in dividing the homestead.

m by the other spouse upon divorce. Fuentes, 38 V.I. at 40, 1997 WL 889532, at *8. The Fuentes Court goes on to rationalize its decision by quoting the Rhode Island Supreme Court in Stevenson v. Stevenson, 511 A.2d 961, 965 (R.I. 1986): To the extent earned during the marriage, the [pension) benefits represent compensation f

il partition action. When determining the equity of the distribution, the court also has broad discretion to consider the case's most salient facts. The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands further refined the court's discretion to divide property by eliminating marital fault as a factor in dividing the homestead.

m by the other spouse upon divorce. Fuentes, 38 V.I. at 40, 1997 WL 889532, at *8. The Fuentes Court goes on to rationalize its decision by quoting the Rhode Island Supreme Court in Stevenson v. Stevenson, 511 A.2d 961, 965 (R.I. 1986): To the extent earned during the marriage. the (pension) benefits represent compensation f

basis of race or ethnicity and so structure its selection process as to admit an essentially predetermined proportion of members of certain groups. The Supreme Court’s decision in Bakke accepted our argument against the sort of racial quotas employed by the medical school at issue, but it approved affirmative action

Island Disciplinary Counsel—the attorney in charge of enforcing the ethical rules that govern lawyers—to obtain guidance. She referred the matter to the Rhode Island Supreme Court which issued an unprecedented opinion concluding that “the attorney had an obligation to disclose the existence of his contingent fee agreement to th