Cary v. Cary

No formal findings of fact or conclusions of law were made or entered in this case. Where this is the situation, this court may look to the written decision of the trial court for facts found upon which the judgment is based. We may do so, but we need not do so. In fact, in contested domestic relations and family-law cases, “. . . we are inclined to . . . remand the case for the making of additional findings. ...” Here the option to remand becomes an imperative for reasons we now spell out.

As to the complaint of the plaintiff, the trial court decision states only: “It is the opinion of the…