Marriage of Winfree CA3

FACTS AND HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS

The central problem with Wife’s appeal is that we do not have a sufficient record of two days of oral proceedings for a four-day trial. As a result, many of the facts—and even the range of the parties’ representations about those facts—remain unclear. Here we provide only minimal factual and procedural details for context, and in the discussion we will incorporate additional information regarding the proceedings below and content of the record as needed. Husband and Wife were married on April 14, 1990. They separated on either July 29 or July 30, 2011. Husband filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on August 10, 2011, and Wife filed a response in which she also requested a dissolution of the marriage on August 17, 2011. On September 27, 2012, the trial court entered a stipulated judgment of dissolution as to marital status only, effective February 18, 2013. The court retained jurisdiction over all remaining issues. The trial court held a four-day bench trial—which was spread out over approximately one year—to determine how to divide the community estate. Wife has presented us with a reporter’s transcript for the second and third days of…