Marriage of Toughill v. Toughill

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• stating that party seeking relief on appeal must show prejudicial error by the district court
• explaining that the appellant must allege and show “both district court error and prejudice caused by that error”
• noting that “[t]he district court is a third party to dissolution proceedings and has the authority to refuse to accept the terms of a stipulation in part or in toto” (quotation omitted)
• noting that “[t]he district court is a third party to dissolution proceedings and has the authority to refuse to accept the terms of a stipulation in part or in toto” (quotation omitted)
• holding a district court may adopt the parties’ stipulated terms and, if one party seeks to repudiate or withdraw from the stipulation, the party must have the other party’s consent or the court’s permission
• stating that district court may reject all or part of stipulation, but “to the extent that the district court does not accept the stipulation, the parties should not, absent unusual circumstances, be precluded from litigating their claims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).