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Equitable distribution: marital, divisible, and separate property
North Carolina classifies property three ways — marital (acquired during the marriage before separation), separate (before marriage, gifts, inheritance), and DIVISIBLE (what happens to marital value after separation) — and the statute presumes an EQUAL division of marital and divisible net value unless the court finds equal inequitable.
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Classification is fact-intensive, the date of separation is the hinge, and the equal-division presumption is a starting point courts can depart from on the statutory factors — never a guarantee.
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