Spomer v. Spomer

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing clerical errors from a judicial error which “reflects a deliberate choice on the part of the court”
• affirming district court’s order under Rule 60(a) where the district court stated it “was attempting to correct an oversight” in its original divorce decree
• clarifying order properly entered as correction under Rule 60(a) to resolve whether husband’s obligation under decree to satisfy “mortgage” was intended to serve as property distribution or maintenance
• clarifying order properly entered as correction under Rule 60(a) to resolve whether husband's obligation under decree to satisfy \mortgage\ was intended to serve as property distribution or maintenance
• “We think it clear that [W.R.C.P. 60] was not designed . . . to affect substantive portions of a judgment or decree. It is not intended to correct judicial, as opposed to clerical, error.” (internal citation omitted)

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