Marriage of Gossman v. Gossman

OPINION

JOHNSON, Judge.

Upon the dissolution of their marriage, Jonathan Douglas Gossman and Melissa Lynn Gossman agreed that he would pay her $5,000 per month in spousal maintenance for a period of five years and that the district court would be divested of jurisdiction to modify the maintenance award. Their agreement was incorporated into a final judgment and decree. But the parties subsequently agreed to modify the maintenance award and twice induced the district court to issue orders that purported to modify the maintenance award. Ms. Gossman later moved to vacate the modification orders…