Marriage of Ainsworth CA1/4

DISCUSSION

A judgment was entered in this action on March 17, 2009, ordering respondent Patrick Ainsworth to pay child and spousal support. Lisa filed a motion in May 2010

1 As is customary in marital dissolution cases, we refer to the parties by their first names for ease of reading and to avoid confusion, not out of disrespect. (In re Marriage of James & Christine C. (2008) 158 Cal.App.4th 1261, 1264, fn. 1.)

1 seeking to modify or set aside the support orders and to adjudicate certain omitted assets. She later filed a motion seeking to have a receiver appointed to take control of certain real property and investment accounts. A hearing was held on the motions on November 10, 2011, and January 19, 2012.2 The trial court filed a tentative statement of decision on February 22. The trial court filed its “Final Statement of Decision and Orders” on April 4. The court devoted 17 pages of thoughtful analysis to the various issues raised by the parties, and ruled in Lisa‟s favor on several of them. The court declined, however, to set aside a December 2008 order or the support provisions of the 2009 judgment based on fraud, as Lisa had urged. The trial court‟s April 4 statement of…