Court Opinion

ID: 9857691
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 15:55:19.181113+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:44:10.144062
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NEUMANN, Justice,
dissenting.
[¶ 41] I, too, respectfully dissent. I believe the majority has retried the case, based on the evidence and on.the facts in the record.
[¶42] As has been pointed out, the parties’ farming operation faces a very uncertain future. The trial court has tried to spread the risk of that uncertainty fairly and equitably. While I might have found facts somewhat differently, and particular*348ly might have reserved the possibility of a future award of spousal support, what I might have preferred to do as a trial judge is not our standard of review. Confronted as it was with so much uncertainty as to the parties’ economic futures, I cannot say the result reached by the trial court was clearly erroneous. I would affirm.
[¶ 43] WILLLIAM A. NEUMANN