Tyler v. Shenkman-Tyler

Opinion

ALVORD, J.

This appeal arises from the judgment of the trial court dissolving the parties’ marriage. The defendant, Richard J. Shenkman-Tyler, claims that the court improperly denied his motions to continue the dissolution trial until after the disposition of a pending criminal case charging him with intentionally setting fire to property owned by the plaintiff, Nancy P. Tyler. He argues that the court’s denials deprived him of the opportunity to present a defense in the dissolution action, thereby depriving him of his constitutional due process rights, because he invoked his fifth…