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· 7/26/1978

Petition of Fenchel

Citations

  • 268 N.W.2d 207
  • 1978 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1024

How courts have described this case

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  • holding a party appealing from a supplemental decree deciding an issue reserved in the original decree may challenge only the supplemental decree’s provisions
  • concluding the rules and statutes governing dissolutions “contemplate one final decree” terminating the marriage and stating if that decree is supplemented by a later one, “only the supplementary decree may then be appealed”
  • concluding a final decree is the one in which the marriage is terminated
  • finding that, in the case of a sixteen-year marriage, alimony was justified
  • stating a final decree is the one in which the marriage is terminated
  • a party appealing from a supplemental decree deciding an issue reserved in the original decree may challenge only the supplemental decree’s provisions

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Judges: Moore, Rawlings, Uhlenhopp, Harris, McCormick

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