Gustafson v. Jensen

GERSTEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from (1) a post-dissolution order awarding personal property, and, (2) a probate order approving a claim for the award of the same personal property. These orders provided the former wife with assets to pay her attorney fees in the original dissolution proceeding. We reverse.

A brief history of the original dissolution judgment is necessary to place this appeal in context. Henning Jensen, the former husband, appealed the final order of dissolution of marriage and, shortly thereafter, died. His estate, through its personal representative, became a substituted…