Barrup v. Barrup

Skoglund, J.,

¶ 34. concurring. I write separately to urge caution in allowing third parties to intervene in divorce cases. This *41is the first time this Court has approved an intervenor seeking to protect her property interests in a divorce proceeding. The only other time we dealt with a third party so situated, Stearns v. Steams, 10 Vt. 540 (1838), we denied creditors’ request to intervene without discussion. Courts in other states have limited intervention in divorce cases, and given our repeated instruction that the family division is a court of limited jurisdiction, we ought to do the same.

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