Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-02-07 23:05:13.446733+00
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ORIGINAL                                            02/07/2023

          IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA
                                                                                             Case Number: DA 22-0584
                                        DA 22-0584
                                                                      FILED
 IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF:                                                FEB 0 7 V23
                                                                     Bowen C.:.,ruenwood
                                                                                     Court
                                                                   C:-fx of Supreme
 LORI DELOIS GUENTHNER,                                               .;tate  hAnntane

             Petitioner and Appellee,
                                                                      ORDER
       and

 NEAL WAYNE GUENTHNER,

             Respondent and Appellant.

       Through counsel, Lori Delois Guenthner (Lori) moves this Court to strike the
exhibits filed by self-represented Appellant Neal Wayne Guenthner (Neal) with his reply
brief. Neal has not filed a response to the motion before it was sent to this Court.
       Lori explains that Neal included "six pages of attachtnents, appearing to comprise
five exhibits." Lori posits that the six pages were not part of the District Court record on
appeal and were never introduced as exhibits at any hearing. She puts forth that "this Court
may not rely on facts outside of the record in resolving an issue before it." Havre Daily
News, LLC v. City of Havre, 2006 MT 215, 1125, 333 Mont. 331, 142 P.3d 864.
       Last month, this matter was sent to this Court for classification.            Following
classification, Lori's objection will be considered. Therefore,
       IT IS ORDERED that Lori's Motion to Strike Neal's Introduction of Documents
Not Within the District Court Record is TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT.
      The Clerk is directed to provide a copy of this Order to counsel of record and to
Neal Wayne Guenthner personally.
      DATED this 7 .6 day of February, 2023.
                                                 For the Court,

                                                                  Chief Justice