Campi

Following more than 20 years of marriage and two years of separation, respondent Mary L. Campi (Mary) 1 filed for a dissolution of the parties’ marriage in May 2003. For more than the next seven years, the parties litigated some issues and stipulated to others. They finally disposed of all remaining disputes with a one-day trial that ended on December 9, 2010, and this appeal followed.

Appellant George E. Campi II (George) argues that the trial court committed several reversible errors during and after the trial, including enforcing a stipulation between the parties and refusing to grant a new trial based on his posttrial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. We conclude that because *1568 there is no right to counsel in dissolution proceedings, George’s ineffective assistance claims lack merit. We also reject George’s remaining arguments and affirm.

I.

Factual and Procedural Background

The parties were married on July 11, 1981. George (age 63 at time of trial) was employed as a garbage collector during the marriage, typically earning $83,900 per year; he also earned money playing the accordion at various events. Mary (55 at time of trial) was a homemaker…