McIntosh v. McIntosh

JOHNSON, Judge.

The threshold issue presented by this appeal is whether the trial court erred in giving legal effect to the parties’ oral stipulations relating to the distribution of their marital property. The parties stipulated as follows: (1) that all property owned by them at the time they separated was marital property: (2) that the marital property was to be divided equally; (3) that the marital property was to be valued as of the date of their divorce; and (4) that they would each bear their own expense and costs of the proceedings. The parties were willing to leave the actual division…