Might this be the problem?
From the last court order:
Indeed, although we take no position with regard to whether the royalties Danny has been
paid pursuant to the sales of the books would be determinative of the value of Linda's interest,
there is no doubt that if the books are derivatives of the manuscript, they could not legally exist
without Danny having conveyed the right to create them to Shelley, and therefore the amount
of royalties Danny has been paid might very well be probative of the value of Linda's interest,
and the trial court might need to revisit, to some extent, its June 14, 2011, ruling that prevented
Linda from inquiring "as to the amount of proceeds arising from" sales of the books. The question,
after all, would not necessarily be how much money Danny actually received immediately upon
transferring to Shelley the right to create the derivative works, but how much that right, as an item of
marital property, was in fact worth at the time of its transfer, regardless of what Danny
received immediately for it.
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