Corcoran v. Marie

[¶ 19] I fully agree with the Court’s finding of ambiguity in the divorce judgment’s spousal support provision. I respectfully dissent, however, because I believe the record supports the District Court’s interpretation of that ambiguous provision.

[¶ 20] Given the support provision’s acknowledged ambiguity, I focus my analysis on the second prong of the test applicable when reviewing an order clarifying a divorce judgment: whether “the court’s construction of its prior judgment is consistent with its language read as a whole and is objectively supported by the record.”5 Greenwood v. Greenwood,…