Smith v. Smith
Decision Date | 16 December 1982 |
Docket Number | No. 53842,53842 |
Citation | 8 Kan.App.2d 252,655 P.2d 469 |
Parties | Judy Loraine SMITH, Appellant, v. Lawrence I. SMITH, Appellee. |
Court | Kansas Court of Appeals |
Syllabus by the Court
In a case where the notice of appeal was filed more than thirty days after the filing of findings of fact and conclusions of law following a nonjury trial and the trial judge did not direct that the judgment be settled by journal entry, it is held the appeal was not timely taken and must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
James W. Clark, Ottawa, for appellant.
Robert W. Green, of Green & Sachse, Chartered, Ottawa, for appellee.
Before REES, P.J., MEYER, J., and JAMES J. NOONE, District Judge Assigned.
Plaintiff has undertaken an appeal from rulings on a post-judgment motion filed by her for revival of alimony and past due child support awarded upon the parties' divorce in 1970. Defendant challenges our jurisdiction to hear this appeal on the ground plaintiff's notice of appeal was not timely filed. We find defendant's position to be correct and we therefore will not address the merits of the issues raised by plaintiff.
On January 8, 1981, following an evidentiary hearing, the trial judge filed with the clerk of the court written findings of fact and conclusions of law, and copies were served on the parties' attorneys. In pertinent part, the instrument filed and served read:
"The Court finds that child support for the period March 1, 1980, until Jill attains majority on January 3, 1981, is and shall be due and payable by the defendant.
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Thereafter, on October 23, 1981, the following journal entry, approved by counsel for the parties, was filed:
Plaintiff's notice of appeal was filed October 30, 1981.
That part of K.S.A. 60-2103(a ) applicable to this case provides:
K.S.A. 60-258 provides:
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