Generally, trial courts are also required to award premarital property, and appreciation on that property, to the spouse who brought the property into the marriage.
See Dunn v. Dunn, 802 P.2d 1314, 1320 (Utah Ct.App. 1990);
see also Mortensen v. Mortensen, 760 P.2d 304, 308 (Utah 1988).
However, separate property is not "totally beyond [a] court's reach in an equitable property division."
Burt v. Burt, 799 P.2d 1166, 1169 (Utah Ct.App.1990). The court may award the separate property of one spouse to the other spouse in "'extraordinary situations where equity so demands.'"
Id. (quoting
Mortensen, 760 P.2d at 308);
see also Rappleye v. Rappleye, 855 P.2d 260, 263 (Utah Ct.App.1993) ("`Exceptions to this general rule include whether ... the distribution achieves a fair, just, and equitable result.'" (quoting
Dunn, 802 P.2d at 1320)).