Harris v. Harris

STEPHENS, Justice.

The dispositive issue on appeal is the right to a jury trial in an action brought in district court to enforce property rights awarded in a divorce judgment rendered several years earlier. We hold that appellant has a right to a jury trial, and accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the trial court and remand the cause for a new trial.

The parties were divorced in 1975. The judgment named the parties as cotenants of the community homestead, reserving an estate for the wife for so long as she remained the permanent managing conservator of the parties’ minor child, and for so…