Shelley Carpenter v. Norman Carpenter

Syllabus

The defendant, Norman Carpenter, appealed from an interlocutory order of the Family Court that authorized a court-appointed commissioner to sell portions of marital property that he owned with his wife, the plaintiff Shelley Carpenter. On appeal, Mr. Carpenter argued that the trial justice erred in issuing the November 15, 2022 order because the trial justice declined to direct the commissioner to consider—or hold an evidentiary hearing related to—Mr. Carpenter's desire to purchase one of the property's four parcels subject to that order. The Supreme Court determined that, while Mr. Carpenter validly appealed the November 15, 2022 order, he waived his substantive challenge to that order, and the Supreme Court therefore affirmed the order of the Family Court.