Dalgleish

Dalgleish v. Selvaggio (In re Dalgleish)

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17 Cal. App. 5th 1172·225 Cal. Rptr. 3d 900
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaNovember 1, 2017B266579California4,879 words

Opinion

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Lui, J.

*1174 Stacy Dalgleish, the petitioner in a marital dissolution proceeding, and Piero Selvaggio, the respondent in that proceeding, both appeal from postjudgment orders of the trial court. Those orders enforced one of the terms of the parties' stipulated judgment, which required an equalization payment from Selvaggio to Dalgleish following a joint appraisal of certain real property. Dalgleish claims that the trial court erred in awarding interest on that payment from the date of the trial court's ruling rather than the date the payment was due, about 19 months earlier. In his cross-appeal, Selvaggio claims that the trial court erred in finding that the appraisal in fact was a joint appraisal as required by the judgment. We agree with Dalgleish's claim and reject Selvaggio's. We therefore reverse the trial court's orders only with respect to the date when interest on the equalization payment began to accrue.

BACKGROUND

1. The Appraisal

On December 7, 2009, the parties executed and the trial court approved a 37-page "Stipulated Further Judgment on Reserved Issues" (Judgment) addressing property division and other topics. The Judgment stated that it was *1175 "the entire agreement…

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