McDougall v. Lumpkin

How courts have described this case

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• holding superior court should have treated student loans as marital debt
• remanding to the superior court where it signed proposed written findings and failed to explain the deviations from its prior oral findings
• “An equitable property division is presumptively fifty-fifty, absent any statutory or equitable factors justifying a different division.”
• \An attorney's failure to submit written proposed findings conforming to the oral findings does not relieve a trial court of responsibility for confirming that the written findings reflect the court's thinking.\
• “Counsel agreeing to draft written findings and conclusions for the superior court is essentially a scribe who must accurately memorialize the court’s oral findings and conclusions.”
• “[T]he court is entitled to assume that counsel will scrupulously comply with the court’s request to prepare findings and conclusions that are ‘consistent’ with the court’s oral findings and conclusions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).