![What is Marital Property?](http://www.mediationow.chicagolawyer.online/wp-content/themes/optimistic-blog-lite/images/placeholder.png)
Marital Property is property that a divorce court has jurisdiction to distribute between the spouses. Non-marital property is property of one of the parties only, and a divorce court cannot decide what to do with non-marital property: it is the property of it’s owner, period. How to distinguish marital from nonmarital property?