In Re the Marriage of Jakkola

Wesley Vernon Jakkola appeals from a decision of the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Carbon County, ordering him to pay his wife $6,000 pursuant to an in-court stipulation. We affirm.

The sole issue is whether the District Court erred in enforcing the stipulation made between the parties.

Nancy and Wesley Jakkola were married in Idaho on April 30,1966. In 1973 the couple returned to Wesley’s parents’ ranch near Roberts, Montana, and began working on the ranch. Nancy and Wesley purchased the ranch from his parents a few years later. The couple lived and worked on the ranch until early in…