Matter of Marriage of Pratt

99 Wn.2d 905 (1983)

665 P.2d 400

In the Matter of the Marriage of BILL GENE PRATT, Respondent, and NADINE M. PRATT, Petitioner.

No. 49084-8.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

June 23, 1983.

Barbara D. Johnson (of Wolf, Griffith, Bittner, Abbott & Roberts), for petitioner.

Charles R. Cusack, Jr. (of Blair, Schaefer, Hutchison, Wynne, Potter, Horton & Johnson), for respondent.

STAFFORD, J.

Petitioner, Nadine Pratt, challenges a Court of Appeals decision which recognizes an inherent common law power of a trial court to enter a final dissolution decree nunc pro tunc. We hold that a dissolution…