Crovetto v. Crovetto

liWe granted certiorari in this matter to consider the subject matter jurisdiction of Division “K” of the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court (22nd JDC), a division of the court designated to hear family and juvenile matters, when one of the former spouses dies after the petition for partition of the community of acquets and gains has been filed and set for trial, but before judgment has been rendered. On September 24, 2012, the trial court found, sua sponte that it lacked the requisite subject matter jurisdiction.1 From that ruling the parties moved for a new trial, which the trial court…