Hansen v. Hansen

In Hansen v. Hansen (1949) 93 Cal. App. 2d 568, the trial court orally ruled that spousal support would terminate upon remarriage, but that term was omitted from the interlocutory divorce judgment. ( Id. at pp. 568-569.) The husband moved to modify the decree by adding the omitted term. ( Id. at p. 569.) In upholding the trial court's modification order, Hansen stated: "While a court may not correct a judicial error by a nunc pro tunc order more than six months after its entry, it may so correct a clerical error. The law is now settled that, where an order or judgment inadvertently omits a provision expressly ordered inserted, the failure to include it is clerical and not judicial even though it may be the error of the judge and not of the clerk." ( Id. at p. 570.)