In re the Marriage of Westendorf

Husband appeals a dissolution judgment, assigning error to the trial court’s division of property, specifically, the parties’ retirement accounts. He argues that the trial court should have applied the “time rule” to the division of the accounts. We conclude that, because husband did not request the trial court to apply the time rule to the parties’ retirement accounts, he is precluded from doing so for the first time on appeal. We therefore affirm without expressing any opinion on the propriety of using the time rule in the circumstances of this case.

Husband has worked as a teacher since…