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Abbott v. Abbott

Citations

  • 90 S.W.3d 10
  • 79 Ark. App. 413
  • 2002 Ark. App. LEXIS 622

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  • reciting that a trial court has inherent power to correct a decree to accurately reflect the court’s original ruling or to interpret its prior decision and that, when its decree is ambiguous, the court has jurisdiction to make changes clarifying what the court originally intended
  • finding a latent ambiguity in a divorce decree that referred to “retirement” when husband’s employer had three types of retirement plans, and it was unclear to which plan the decree referred
  • finding a latent ambiguity in a divorce decree that referred to \retirement\ when husband's employer had three types of retirement plans, and it was unclear to which plan the decree referred

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Judges: Josephine Linker Hart

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