Rinegar v. Rinegar

OPINION

SWANN, Judge.

¶ 1 The superior court reopened Margaret Rinegar (“Wife”) and Michael Rinegar’s (“Husband[’s]”) decree of dissolution to allocate omitted community retirement assets and awarded attorney’s fees to Husband. We hold that the court properly exercised jurisdiction, and that a separate civil action was not required to allocate these assets. We reject Wife’s argument that the assets had already been allocated by the decree’s catch-all provision, because the court heard evidence concerning their division, and to infer their intentional exclusion from the decree would be to affirm…