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Rodolfo A. Quiles, appellant, v. 

Taina R. Collazo, formerly known as 

Taina R. Collazo-Quiles, appellee.

___ N.W.3d ___

Filed September 17, 2024. No. A-23-665.

1. Attorney Fees: Appeal and Error. A trial court’s decision awarding 

or denying attorney fees will be upheld on appeal absent an abuse of 

discretion.

2. Appeal and Error. Plain error is error plainly evident from the record 

and of such a nature that to leave it uncorrected would result in damage 

to the integrity, reputation, or fairness of the judicial process.

3. ____. Whether an assignment of error and accompanying argument is 

too vague to be sufficiently raised before the appellate court is a question of law.

4. Bankruptcy: Alimony: Child Support. Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. 

§ 523(a)(5) (2018 & Supp. IV 2022), any debt that is categorized as a 

“domestic support obligation” is exempted from a chapter 13 discharge.

5. ____: ____: ____. A debt that is actually in the nature of alimony, maintenance, or support of a spouse, former spouse, or child of the debtor is 

nondischargeable in bankruptcy.

6. ____: ____: ____. The determination of whether a particular debt constitutes alimony, maintenance, or support within the meaning of 11 U.S.C. 

§ 523(a) (2018 & Supp. IV 2022) is a question of federal bankruptcy 

law, not state law.

7. Bankruptcy. Bankruptcy courts may afford deference to a state court’s 

categorization of a debt, but they are not bound by the state court’s 

decision.

8. Divorce: Alimony: Child Support: Property Division. Factors to be 

considered by the courts in determining whether an award arising out of 

marital dissolution proceedings was intended to serve as an award for 

alimony, maintenance, or support, or whether it was intended to serve 

as a property settlement, include, but are not limited to: the relative 

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financial conditions of the parties at the time of the divorce; the respective employment histories and prospects for financial support; the fact 

that one party or another receives the marital property; the periodic 

nature of the payments; and whether it would be difficult for the former 

spouse and children to subsist without the payments.

9. Bankruptcy: Alimony: Child Support. Federal bankruptcy courts are 

not bound by a state trial court’s designation of a debt as a domestic support obligation. A state court’s characterization of a debt is only advisory 

to a bankruptcy court.

10. Rules of the Supreme Court: Judges. The Nebraska Revised Code of 

Judicial Conduct says that a judge shall perform all duties of judicial 

office fairly and impartially.

11. Judges: Recusal. It is a judge’s duty to disqualify himself or herself 

whenever the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned. This 

duty exists even in the absence of a motion by a party and continues 

throughout the proceedings.

12. ____: ____. Judges are under a continuing obligation to disqualify themselves whenever their impartiality may be reasonably questioned, and 

although a judge may initially be free from bias and prejudice, disqualification may well become necessary over the course of a proceeding.

13. Rules of the Supreme Court: Judges: Recusal. As the Nebraska 

Revised Code of Judicial Conduct provides, a judge should disclose 

on the record any information that the judge believes the parties or 

their lawyers might reasonably consider relevant to a possible motion 

for disqualification, even if the judge believes there is no basis for 

disqualification.

14. Judges: Recusal: Presumptions. It is presumed that all judges in 

this state carry out all of their duties competently and diligently.

Accordingly, a defendant seeking to disqualify a judge on the basis of 

bias or prejudice bears the heavy burden of overcoming the presumption 

of judicial impartiality.

15. Constitutional Law: Due Process: Trial: Judges: Recusal: Waiver.

A party cannot waive the disqualification of a judge due to the judge’s 

personal bias or prejudice toward the party or the party’s lawyer. This 

is because the right to an impartial judge is guaranteed under the Due 

Process Clauses of the U.S. and Nebraska Constitutions, the parameters 

of which are coextensive.

16. Judges: Recusal: Appeal and Error. When a party fails to object to 

alleged judicial bias at trial, and instead raises the issue for the first time 

on appeal, the appellate court’s review is limited to plain error.

17. Records: Appeal and Error. It is incumbent upon the appellant to present a record supporting the errors assigned.
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18. Appeal and Error. An alleged error must be both specifically assigned 

and specifically argued in the brief of the party asserting the error to be 

considered by an appellate court. A generalized and vague assignment of 

error that does not advise an appellate court of the issue submitted for 

decision will not be considered.

19. Rules of the Supreme Court: Appeal and Error. Depending on the 

particulars of each case, failure to abide by the rules of the Nebraska 

Supreme Court may result in an appellate court waiving the error, proceeding on a plain error review only, or declining to conduct any review 

at all.

Appeal from the District Court for Douglas County: Todd 

O. Engleman, Judge. Affirmed.

Rodolfo A. Quiles, pro se.

David Pontier, of Koenig | Dunne, P.C., L.L.O., for appellee.

Pirtle, Chief Judge, and Arterburn and Welch, Judges.

Pirtle, Chief Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Rodolfo A. Quiles (Rodolfo), proceeding pro se, appeals 

from the decree of the district court for Douglas County granting him a divorce from Taina R. Collazo, formerly known as 

Taina R. Collazo-Quiles (Taina). After the district court issued 

a divorce decree, the parties both motioned to modify the 

decree, and Taina requested the court hold Rodolfo in contempt 

for failing to pay her certain sums required by the decree. After 

a trial was held on those matters, the court set a hearing to 

determine attorney fees. This hearing was ultimately delayed 

because Rodolfo filed for chapter 13 bankruptcy and later 

filed an interlocutory appeal. Eventually, the hearing was held, 

and the district court ordered Rodolfo to pay Taina $28,656 in 

attorney fees. Rodolfo now appeals that award and asserts the 

district court failed to disclose a conflict of interest. For the 

reasons that follow, we affirm.
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BACKGROUND

We first note that the record in this matter is limited. 

Although there was an underlying modification and contempt 

trial, the record does not include any of the pretrial motions, 

evidence, or testimony from the trial. The only documents 

we have concerning the trial are the district court’s orders. 

Likewise, while there were several posttrial hearings on a variety of matters, the motions that prompted those hearings are 

not in the record. Instead, the bill of exceptions contains only 

the transcribed recordings from the posttrial hearings, but not 

from the trial. Accordingly, our recitation of facts relies heavily on the procedural backgrounds articulated in the district 

court’s orders.

On February 14, 2020, the district court issued an amended 

divorce decree that finalized Rodolfo and Taina’s divorce. As 

part of this decree, Taina was awarded legal custody of the 

parties’ two children, subject to Rodolfo’s parenting time. The 

decree also ordered Rodolfo to pay $1,265 a month in child 

support plus an additional $300 to “avoid cost sharing nonmedical and non-childcare expenses” for the children.

On April 28, 2020, Rodolfo filed a motion to modify the 

divorce decree as a self-represented litigant. This motion was 

evidently prompted by Rodolfo’s move out of state, which 

made certain provisions of the decree unworkable. 

On August 30, 2021, Taina filed an amended answer and 

counterclaim for modification. Rodolfo filed a reply on 

September 2. Then on October 25, Taina filed a verified application for an order to appear and show cause due to Rodolfo’s 

failing to pay Taina various sums required by the amended 

divorce decree. A trial on these matters was held on March 

8, 2022. 

On March 29, 2022, the district court issued its order of 

modification that awarded Taina primary physical custody of 

the children and increased Rodolfo’s child support obligation 

to $2,188 per month. Also on March 29, the court issued an 

order finding Rodolfo in contempt and instructing him to pay 
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Taina $57,622.52 for unpaid child support, alimony, property 

settlement payments, attorney fees, court sanctions, and marital 

residence sale proceeds. The district court then set a further 

hearing for May 2 to determine the amount of attorney fees 

Rodolfo owed Taina in relation to the modification and contempt proceedings.

On April 28, 2022, Rodolfo filed a petition for chapter 

13 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle 

District of Florida. As part of the bankruptcy case, an automatic stay was issued in the Nebraska proceedings.

On May 3, 2022, Rodolfo filed an interlocutory appeal 

in the Nebraska proceedings that took issue with the court’s 

March 29 orders. That appeal was ultimately dismissed by 

this court because there was not a final, appealable order or 

judgment.

On July 14, 2022, the bankruptcy court entered an order 

lifting the automatic stay in the Nebraska proceedings so the 

district court could determine how much Rodolfo owed Taina 

in attorney fees for the modification, contempt, and bankruptcy proceedings. Additionally, the bankruptcy court stated 

the stay was being lifted so the district court could enter further orders regarding the “payment of domestic support obligations from property that is not property of the estate, including 

[Rodolfo’s] exempt retirement accounts.”

On September 2, 2022, the district court held a hearing 

on Taina’s motion to determine attorney fees and payment of 

support obligations, Rodolfo’s motion to dismiss that motion, 

and Taina’s motion to reopen evidence from the March 8 trial 

and recalculate child support. At this hearing, the court first 

addressed the matter of attorney fees and received a certified 

copy of the bankruptcy court’s order and an affidavit from 

Taina’s attorney to support the requested attorney fees.

The court then addressed Taina’s motion to reopen evidence 

from the March 8, 2022, trial. The hearing transcript reflects 

that this motion was filed after Taina’s attorney discovered 

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support of this motion, the court received an exhibit Rodolfo 

filed with the bankruptcy court where he listed his monthly 

income as $9,238.25; a copy of Rodolfo’s employment agreement, which showed a biweekly income of $8,076.92; and 

an updated child support calculation that reflected Rodolfo’s 

monthly income as $20,419, as an aid to the court. Notably, 

Taina’s attorney indicated that the difference between the 

income listed in Rodolfo’s employment agreement and the 

updated child support calculation was due to Rodolfo’s military retirement pay, which had not changed. The court also 

noted that because the motion to reopen evidence and recalculate child support had been filed the same week as the hearing, 

it was going to schedule a future hearing to provide Rodolfo 

additional time to gather any evidence he wanted to submit.

The district court issued an order the same day that found 

Taina was owed $17,176 in attorney fees for the modification 

and contempt proceedings and $11,480 in attorney fees for 

the bankruptcy proceedings. The court deemed these fees to 

be domestic support obligations that Rodolfo had to satisfy 

within 30 days “by liquidating his bankruptcy exempted retirement funds.” Finally, the court set a further hearing to allow 

Rodolfo an opportunity to introduce rebuttal evidence concerning the recalculation of his child support obligations. 

The hearing was scheduled for August 15, 2023, but before 

it could take place, Rodolfo filed another interlocutory appeal. 

This court ultimately dismissed that appeal on July 5 for the 

continued lack of a final, appealable order or judgment.

On August 15, 2023, the hearing for Rodolfo to provide 

rebuttal evidence took place. On August 23, the district court 

issued an order finding that Rodolfo did not rebut Taina’s evidence and that he had mispresented his income at the March 8, 

2022, trial. The court then recalculated his child support obligation to be $2,536 per month.

On August 29, 2023, Rodolfo, still proceeding pro se, filed 

the current appeal.
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ASSIGNMENTS OF ERROR

Rodolfo assigns as follows: (1) The district court should 

have adhered to the uniform code of legal procedures and not 

awarded attorney fees against Rodolfo as in the nature of support and as a domestic support obligation, (2) the district court 

should have adhered to the canons of the Nebraska Code of 

Judicial Conduct and disclosed to Rodolfo a potential conflict 

of interest between the district court judge and Taina’s prior 

divorce counsel, and (3) the district court should have issued 

tenable orders that would not unfairly deprive Rodolfo of substantial rights.

STANDARD OF REVIEW

[1] A trial court’s decision awarding or denying attorney fees 

will be upheld on appeal absent an abuse of discretion. Hawks 

v. Hawks, 32 Neb. App. 70, 993 N.W.2d 688 (2023). 

[2] Plain error is error plainly evident from the record and 

of such a nature that to leave it uncorrected would result in 

damage to the integrity, reputation, or fairness of the judicial 

process. Steffy v. Steffy, 287 Neb. 529, 843 N.W.2d 655 (2014). 

[3] Whether an assignment of error and accompanying argument is too vague to be sufficiently raised before the appellate 

court is a question of law. State v. Abdullah, 289 Neb. 123, 853 

N.W.2d 858 (2014). 

ANALYSIS

Attorney Fees.

Rodolfo first assigns the district court “should have adhered 

to the uniform code of legal procedures and not award[ed] 

attorneys’ fees against [Rodolfo] as in the nature of support 

and as a domestic support obligation.” Within this assignment, 

he makes several disjointed arguments. He starts by acknowledging that there is a uniform course of procedure in Nebraska 

that allows for attorney fees to be awarded in dissolution 

actions. But he next asserts the district court should not have 

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attorney failed to provide certain facts about her employment 

status, and Taina did not prevail in every one of her arguments. 

He then shifts his argument to the district court’s failure to 

articulate why the fees were domestic support obligations and 

how the court lacked jurisdiction to make the awards when the 

bankruptcy court purportedly had exclusive jurisdiction over 

the dischargeability of his debts. 

[4,5] We determine that this assignment fails because 

Rodolfo is unable to demonstrate he was prejudiced by the district court’s characterizing the attorney fee awards as domestic 

support obligations. Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(5) (2018 

& Supp. IV 2022), any debt that is categorized as a “domestic 

support obligation” is exempted from a chapter 13 discharge. 

See In re Spencer, 868 F.3d 748 (8th Cir. 2017). A domestic 

support obligation is defined in 11 U.S.C. § 101(14A) (2018 & 

Supp. IV 2022) as a debt (1) “owed to or recoverable by . . . 

(i) a spouse, former spouse, or child of the debtor”; (2) “in the 

nature of alimony, maintenance, or support”; (3) “established 

. . . by reason of applicable provisions of . . . (i) a separation 

agreement, divorce decree, or property settlement agreement; 

(ii) an order of a court of record; or (iii) a determination made 

in accordance with applicable nonbankruptcy law”; and (4) 

“not assigned to a nongovernmental entity, unless that obligation is assigned voluntarily.” Thus, under this section, if a 

debt is “‘actually in the nature of’” alimony, maintenance, or 

support of a spouse, former spouse, or child of the debtor, it is 

nondischargeable in bankruptcy. Halouska v. Halouska, 7 Neb. 

App. 730, 797, 585 N.W.2d 490, 503 (1998).

[6,7] The federal circuit courts have uniformly decided 

that the determination of whether a particular debt constitutes 

alimony, maintenance, or support within the meaning of 11 

U.S.C. § 523(a) is a question of federal bankruptcy law, not 

state law. See, In re Taylor, 737 F.3d 670 (10th Cir. 2013); In re 

Phegley, 443 B.R. 154 (B.A.P. 8th Cir. 2011); In re Sodergren, 

802 Fed. Appx. 277 (9th Cir. 2020); In Matter of McCloskey, 

659 Fed. Appx. 196 (5th Cir. 2016). And therefore, bankruptcy 
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courts may afford deference to a state court’s categorization 

of a debt, but they are not bound by the state court’s decision. 

See, Halouska v. Halouska, supra; Ziegenhorn v. Iowa Dist. 

Court, 510 N.W.2d 894, 898 (Iowa App. 1993) (“label placed 

upon an obligation in a dissolution decree by either the state 

court or the parties is not dispositive on whether the debt is 

dischargeable [under] 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(5)(B)”); In re Weihs, 

1 Fed. Appx. 578 (8th Cir. 2001).

In Halouska v. Halouska, supra, a Nebraska trial court 

overseeing a divorce proceeding found in favor of the wife 

and awarded her alimony, child support, attorney fees, and 

the value of their shared property. In addition, the court took 

an extra step to ensure the husband would pay those amounts 

in the event of a bankruptcy by designating all his debts 

as domestic support obligations. On appeal to the Court of 

Appeals, the husband argued that the record did not support 

categorizing the debt as a domestic support obligations and 

that doing so demonstrated unequal treatment of the parties. 

However, we determined the district court did not abuse its 

discretion because the court’s order was only advisory to a 

later bankruptcy court. And therefore, the husband was unable 

to show he was prejudiced by the judgment.

[8] In finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion, 

we discussed the factors that the federal bankruptcy courts utilize in determining whether debts are nondischargeable under 

11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(5): 

“Factors to be considered by the courts in determining 

whether an award arising out of marital dissolution proceedings was intended to serve as an award for alimony, 

maintenance or support, or whether it was intended to 

serve as a property settlement include, but are not limited to: the relative financial conditions of the parties 

at the time of the divorce; the respective employment 

histories and prospects for financial support; the fact that 

one party or another receives the marital property; the 

periodic nature of the payments; and whether it would 
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be difficult for the former spouse and children to subsist 

without the payments.”

Halouska v. Halouska, 7 Neb. App. 730, 747-48, 585 N.W.2d 

490, 503 (1998) (quoting In re Moeder, 220 B.R. 52 (B.A.P. 

8th Cir. 1998)). We next explained: 

Although the trial court’s designation of the debts as 

support might be one indication of the “function” the 

award was intended to serve, it is obviously not conclusive. And certainly a declaration that the debts are 

“nondischargeable in bankruptcy” is not binding on the 

bankruptcy court. Rather, as is clear from In re Moeder, 

a bankruptcy court will apply all of the principles enumerated above in determining whether an obligation is 

a support obligation or a nonsupport obligation merely 

disguised as one for support.

. . . .

In sum, based upon the clear language of § 523 and 

the rationale of In re Moeder, supra, if and when the 

dischargeability of the relevant debts becomes an issue, 

a bankruptcy court will look beyond the designation in 

the award and determine the dischargeability of relevant 

debts based on federal bankruptcy law. Thus, the trial 

court’s nonbinding declaration cannot be said to be an 

abuse of discretion.

Halouska v. Halouska, 7 Neb. App. at 748-49, 535 N.W.2d 

at 504.

[9] Rodolfo’s current assignment presents a similar situation. Although the bankruptcy court requested the district court 

to determine the amount of attorney fees and whether they 

constituted domestic support obligations, the district court’s 

findings remained advisory. Because the categorization of 

debts as domestic support obligations is a question of federal 

bankruptcy law, not state law, we likewise determine that 

Rodolfo was not prejudiced by the court’s characterization 

of his debts. Therefore, we are unable to find that the court 
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abused its discretion in awarding the attorney fees and labeling 

them as domestic support obligations.

Judicial Conflict of Interest.

Rodolfo next assigns that the presiding district court judge 

should have disclosed a potential conflict of interest he had 

with Taina’s prior attorney, “Attorney Spomer.” See brief for 

appellant at 22. He asserts that before taking the bench, the 

judge worked with Spomer. Rodolfo generally asserts that the 

judge should have disclosed this connection with Taina’s former counsel and that his failure to do so violated the Nebraska 

Revised Code of Judicial Conduct.

[10-14] The Nebraska Revised Code of Judicial Conduct 

says that a judge “‘shall perform all duties of judicial office 

fairly and impartially.’” State v. Ezell, 314 Neb. 825, 835-36, 

993 N.W.2d 449, 458 (2023). It is a judge’s duty to disqualify 

himself or herself whenever “‘the judge’s impartiality might 

reasonably be questioned.’” Id. at 836, 993 N.W.2d at 458.

This duty exists even in the absence of a motion by a party 

and continues throughout the proceedings. Id. Judges are under 

a continuing obligation to disqualify themselves whenever 

their impartiality may be reasonably questioned, and although 

a judge may initially be free from bias and prejudice, disqualification may well become necessary over the course of 

a proceeding. Id. As the Nebraska Revised Code of Judicial 

Conduct provides, a judge should disclose on the record any 

information that the judge believes the parties or their lawyers 

“‘might reasonably consider relevant to a possible motion for 

disqualification, even if the judge believes there is no basis 

for disqualification.’” Id. at 836, 993 N.W.2d at 458. It is presumed that all judges in this state carry out all of their duties 

competently and diligently. State v. Ezell, supra. Accordingly, 

a defendant seeking to disqualify a judge on the basis of bias 

or prejudice bears the heavy burden of overcoming the presumption of judicial impartiality. Id.

[15,16] Taina argues that because this is the first time 

Rodolfo has raised this issue, he waived his ability to raise 
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it on appeal. However, a party cannot waive the disqualification of a judge due to the judge’s personal bias or prejudice 

toward the party or the party’s lawyer. Id. This is because the 

right to an impartial judge is guaranteed under the Due Process 

Clauses of the U.S. and Nebraska Constitutions, the parameters of which are coextensive. State v. Ezell, supra. However, 

when a party fails to object to alleged judicial bias at trial, and 

instead raises the issue for the first time on appeal, the appellate court’s review is limited to plain error. See, e.g., Russell v. 

Anderson, 966 F.3d 711 (8th Cir. 2020) (reviewing appellant’s 

allegations of judicial bias for plain error when objections to 

district court’s comments were not made at trial). See, also, 

U.S. v. Caldwell, 81 F.4th 1160 (11th Cir. 2023); U.S. v. LanzaVázquez, 799 F.3d 134 (1st Cir. 2015).

[17] In the matter at hand, the record contains no information about the presiding judge’s alleged conflict of interest. It 

is incumbent upon the appellant to present a record supporting 

the errors assigned. William P. v. Jamie P., 313 Neb. 378, 984 

N.W.2d 285 (2023). The only information we have concerning 

the judge’s purported relationship with Taina’s former attorney comes from Rodolfo’s appellate brief. Notably, because 

this is the only source of information, we do not even know 

Spomer’s first name. Because there is nothing in the record 

regarding this issue, we do not know when, or even if, this 

“Attorney Spomer” represented Taina. Further, we have no 

evidence linking this person with the district court judge. 

And because the bill of exceptions in this matter is incomplete, we have no way to know whether the judge previously 

disclosed this alleged relationship. With absolutely no record 

or evidence concerning this purported conflict of interest, we 

are unable to determine that the district court erred, let alone 

plainly erred.

Orders Affected Rodolfo’s Substantial Rights.

Rodolfo next assigns that the district court “should have 

issued tenable orders that would not unfairly deprive [him] 

of substantial rights.” Within this assignment, he provides 
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citations to various legal authorities about how to determine 

whether the division of property in a dissolution proceeding 

is equitable, the appellate standard of review for reviewing 

alimony awards, whether an order is a final order or judgment, 

and when a proceeding is related to a bankruptcy case. He then 

asserts various facts not in the record concerning his alleged 

offer to settle with Taina prior to the March 8, 2022, trial.

Next, Rodolfo cites to the transcribed recording for the 

September 2, 2022, hearing where he argued that the court 

could not liquidate his retirement account under the bankruptcy code and that the 30-day deadline to satisfy the judgments was untenable. He then generally argues that the court 

incorrectly concluded that Taina’s awards could be satisfied 

from his retirement account and that the district court did not 

have authority to intrude upon the bankruptcy process. Lastly, 

he cites several provisions of the federal bankruptcy code to 

contend that the district court’s orders curtailed his right to file 

for bankruptcy, because its orders limited his ability to pursue 

other options provided by the bankruptcy code. He asserts 

these other options include the ability to delay his filing, voluntarily dismiss his current filing, and change the “six-month 

‘look back’” period used to determine his projected disposable 

income. Brief for appellant at 32.

[18,19] We determine this assignment cannot be considered 

on appeal. An alleged error must be both specifically assigned 

and specifically argued in the brief of the party asserting the 

error to be considered by an appellate court. State v. Sundquist, 

301 Neb. 1006, 921 N.W.2d 131 (2019). A generalized and 

vague assignment of error that does not advise an appellate 

court of the issue submitted for decision will not be considered. Id. Depending on the particulars of each case, failure to 

abide by the rules of the Nebraska Supreme Court may result 

in an appellate court waiving the error, proceeding on a plain 

error review only, or declining to conduct any review at all. 

See County of Lancaster v. County of Custer, 313 Neb. 622, 

985 N.W.2d 612 (2023).
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Rodolfo’s assignment broadly takes issue with the district 

court’s “[un]tenable orders” because they affected his “substantial rights.” Beyond the vagueness of that assertion, his 

argument section does nothing to clearly define the specific 

matter he is discussing. As such, we are unable to discern 

what specific issue he is submitting on appeal. And although 

we reserve the ability to conduct a plain error review in such 

cases where a party fails to abide by the rules of the Nebraska 

Supreme Court, given the unintelligible nature of this assignment, we decline to conduct any review at all.

CONCLUSION

We determine the district court did not abuse its discretion in 

categorizing the attorney fee awards as domestic support obligations, because its judgment was only advisory to the bankruptcy court. We also determine that the court did not plainly 

err as it relates to Rodolfo’s allegations of judicial misconduct, 

and we do not consider Rodolfo’s third assignment of error 

because it is insufficiently assigned and argued in his brief.

Affirmed.