In Re the Marriage of Bird

Respondent-husband, Larry Calvin Bird, appeals from entry of a nunc pro tunc order clarifying the terms of the property settlement portion of the parties’ dissolution decree. He asserts that the clarification altered the decree to take away property he received under the original decree. We reverse.

The 1981 dissolution decree awarded the wife the parties’ home, valued at $80,000, subject to an encumbrance of approximately $37,700. The husband and his mother were granted liens against the real estate in the amounts of $6,150 and $10,000, respectively, to be paid within one year. The decree…