Marriage of Gossman v. Gossman

I concur, with reservations, with the majority opinion on the issue of jurisdiction. But it is grossly inequitable to retroactively require Jonathan Gossman to pay Melissa Gossman the $59,170 in maintenance that, under three separate agreements of the parties as well as the 2010 and 2011 orders of the district court, Jonathan Goss-man did not pay. I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority’s opinion (re)imposing that obligation.

A. Jurisdiction

It is not clear to me that the district court does, in fact, lack “jurisdiction” to address maintenance. Addressing a district court’s…