Court Opinion

ID: 9732990
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:48:46.012727+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:37.018925
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING.
The defendant has filed a petition for rehearing, wherein he requests that the Supreme Court grant rehearing or amend its opinion to clarify the disposition to be made of the three transfers made by defendant-appellant and to confirm such transfers and to provide that the funds received from the two contracts for deed be made the property of the defendant-appellant to be used by him for the benefit and support of the children.
This court did not pass on the transfers in question because they were made by the defendant after the decision of the trial court was appealed to this court. The restraint on alienation of the defendant’s property, imposed earlier by the trial court, was removed in the amended judgment. The transfers were brought to our attention after appeal to this court. We reimposed the restraint on alienation of the property in our opinion. The transfers which the defendant now asks us to approve were not a part of the record on appeal, and thus could not be approved or disapproved by us. In reimposing the restraint on alienation, we urged the trial court to consider the three' transfers in the light of what we had said in the opinion.
Since the transfers had not been made when the appeal was taken, we cannot find the proceeds of the sales to be the property of the defendant, to be used by him in support of the children. We believe this request is superfluous, however, since the opinion does specifically provide that the property be given to the defendant to enable him to fulfill his responsibility of providing for the children.
The transfers should be scrutinized by the trial court to determine if they were fairly made. If they were, the trial court should lift the restraint on alienation as to these properties and the proceeds of the contracts for deed should go to the defendant to be used in providing support for the children, and the conveyance to the defendant’s attorneys should be affirmed if found reasonable and necessary.
The petition for rehearing .is denied.
ERICKSTAD, PAULSON, KNUDSON and TEIGEN, JJ., concur.