Tejral v. Tejral

Petitioner-appellant husband appeals from an order of the district court granting the motion of respondent-appellee wife to vacate a default judgment entered in a dissolution of marriage case between the parties. The default judgment dissolved the marriage of the parties, granted custody of the parties’ two children to petitioner, and divided the property and debts of the parties. For the reasons hereinafter set out we reverse.

On February 1,1984, the husband filed his petition seeking a dissolution of the parties’ marriage, custody of the parties’ two children, and an equitable division of…