MARRIAGE OF PRATT

No. 4981-3-II.

32 Wn. App. 665 (1982)

649 P.2d 141

In the Matter of the Marriage of BILL GENE PRATT, Respondent, and NADINE M. PRATT, Appellant.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two.

July 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara D. Johnson and Morse & Bratt, for appellant.

Charles R. Cusack, Jr., and Blair, Schaefer, Hutchison, Wynne, Potter & Horton, for respondent.


WORSWICK, J.

Does a trial court have inherent power to enter a dissolution decree nunc pro tunc after the death of the husband if, before the death, the court had decided the case on the merits, attorneys for both parties had approved the findings, conclusions and decree and the delay was due to collateral reasons? We hold that entry of the decree nunc pro tunc under these circumstances was proper.

Mr. and Mrs. Pratt were married on November 11, 1978, but...

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