Key legal question
Whether the post-sale liquidation surplus of the marital property was to be allocated only according to purchase contributions or also according to later renovation investments.
Extracted holding
Later renovation investments from the husband's acquest also had to be taken into account in allocating the conjunctural increase in value.
Extracted reasoning
A property must be treated as a whole for matrimonial-property purposes. Conjunctural appreciation concerns the entire asset, and a later investment can also participate in that appreciation. No causal link between the investment and the appreciation is required; what matters is that the increase is conjunctural rather than industrial.