If, for example, you or your client earned a 2015 profit-sharing bonus that Ford paid in April 2016, after a marriage earlier in 2016–i.e., after the bonus year but before receipt of the bonus–take comfort in this Missouri case, Sanders v. Sanders, 933 S.W.2d 898 (Mo. Ct. App. E.D. 1996).
The Sanders case applies Missouri’s “source of the funds” rule, and holds that bonuses resulting from pre-marital labor or contributions are non-marital property of the spouse whose labor or contributions warranted the bonus.
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