Jordan v. Jordan
Decision Date | 17 December 1981 |
Docket Number | No. 2,CA-CIV,2 |
Citation | 132 Ariz. 51,643 P.2d 1021 |
Parties | Mary Ann JORDAN, Petitioner/Appellee, v. Donald E. JORDAN, Respondent/Appellant. 4019. |
Court | Arizona Court of Appeals |
In August 1978 a dissolution decree involving the parties to this appeal was entered awarding the family residence to appellee. On appeal from that award, this court in a memorandum decision filed September 26, 1979, reversed the trial court by finding lack of jurisdiction to award the home to appellee because the property was acquired in joint tenancy prior to 1973, and there was no authority to make an equitable division of it. This court then ordered the following:
On October 6, 1979 a motion for rehearing was denied by this court, and on December 4, 1979 a petition for review by the Arizona Supreme Court was denied.
Between the time this court issued its mandate and the trial court reconsidered the division of the property, A.R.S. § 25-318 was amended so that it had prospective and retrospective operation. One consequence of this was that joint tenancy property could be divided equitably without regard to the date of property acquisition.
Pursuant to this amendment, the trial court ordered the following:
The only question on appeal is whether the trial court had jurisdiction to ignore the mandate of this court and apply the amended statute. We hold that it did not and reverse.
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...in that mandate. The court of appeals held that the trial court was without jurisdiction so to do and reversed. Jordan v. Jordan, --- Ariz.App. ----, 643 P.2d 1021 (1981). We granted appellee wife's petition for The parties were married in 1959 and lived in Oklahoma before moving to Arizona......