Nixon v. Nixon

[¶ 17] I respectfully dissent. The District Court heard and decided this matter after a contested trial. At that trial, the court was able to observe the parties, their demeanor and their presentations of evidence and gained impressions of the parties, and the sincerity of their positions, that cannot be replicated in the cold record of evidence on appeal. See State v. Patterson, 2005 ME 26, ¶ 16, 868 A.2d 188, 192-93. Because we respect the capacity of the trial court to gain the impressions upon which it makes its fact-findings from both the record and the appearances of the parties before…