Marriage of West v. West

I believe the issue here has been the subject of too much litigation; litigation which has been both emotionally and economically costly to the parties involved. A review of Burr v. Burr, 353 N.W.2d 644 (Minn.Ct.App.1984), Ruud v. Ruud, 380 N.W.2d 765 (Minn.1986) and Gunderson v. Gunderson, 408 N.W.2d 852 (Minn.1987), leaves me with a firm conviction that if at the time a marriage is dissolved the parties agree that maintenance will survive obli-gee’s subsequent remarriage, they should make certain that their stipulation says so in words that are not ambiguous and that those words are…