Dalrie Cook v. Hugo Marcelo Arias

EISMANN, Justice.

This is an appeal by permission out of Bonneville County from an order in a divorce action modifying child custody. Because no final judgment dissolving the marriage and no judgment regarding custody had ever been entered in this action during the four-year period after the divorce trial, we dismissed the appeal because it did not qualify for an appeal by permission. After the appeal was dismissed, the magistrate court entered a partial judgment purporting to retroactively divorce the parties four years earlier and a partial judgment regarding custody and the division of…