In Re the Marriage of Balanson

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• concluding that a district court’s error in dividing marital property will be deemed harmless if, “viewed in the aggregate,” it does not affect a large percentage of the marital estate
• holding errors by the court in dividing property are reversible when the aggregate effect of such errors affects the parties’ substantial rights
• recognizing district court’s “great latitude” to equitably distribute marital property and that an appellate court must not disturb its decision “unless there has been a clear abuse of discretion”
• requiring a district court to make findings as to how it considered separate property as an economic circumstance when dividing a marital estate
• if a trial court's error in dividing marital property affects the substantial rights of the parties, we must remand the issue of property division to the trial court

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