Garden v. Garden

CASANUEVA, Judge.

In this appeal from a final judgment of dissolution of marriage, Richard Garden asserts the trial court erred by denying his request for a continuance, by permitting his counsel to withdraw immediately prior to the trial’s commencement, and by assigning an inflated value to an asset acquired during the term of the marriage. Because we conclude that the trial court improperly permitted Mr. Garden’s counsel to withdraw at the moment of trial, we reverse.

Penny Garden filed a petition for dissolution on November 8, 1999, after the parties had been married ten years. The case was…