Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Numerous Minnesota appellate opinions refer to the fact that a district court can address maintenance only if a maintenance obligation exists or if the district court reserved the maintenance question. Many of those opinions further state that this limitation is a limitation on the district court’s “jurisdiction.” Recently, however, the United States Supreme Court, the Minnesota Supreme Court, and this court have all acknowledged that courts and parties often use concepts and language associated with “jurisdiction” imprecisely to refer to, among other things, nonjurisdictional claims-processing rules or nonjurisdic-tional limits on a court’s authority to address a question. The outcome of this appeal will be the same whether the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to address wife’s motion to modify maintenance or lacked authority to address her motion. Therefore, we need not decide whether the existence of an obligation to pay spousal maintenance or a reservation of maintenance goes to a district court’s subject-matter jurisdiction to address maintenance, and this opinion simply refers to the district court’s authority to address maintenance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Marriage of Gossman v. Gossman