In Re the Marriage of Schroeder

HARRIS, Presiding Justice.

A statute in Iowa’s dissolution of marriage law provides for mandatory conciliation upon the timely request of either party. Notwithstanding what we believe to have been an adequate and timely request by the respondent, no conciliation was provided in this case. Because of the failure we must order a partial remand with a direction that it be provided. It is unnecessary for us to consider respondent’s other assignment which challenged the amount of alimony allowed by the trial court. This assignment was correctly rejected by the court of appeals and we did not grant…