Court Opinion

ID: 9733391
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Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:05:50.179521+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:40.933739
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Gartzke, P.J.
(dissenting). The petition was timely filed. In family law, support is normally paid in advance. Otherwise the recipient would lack income from the date the right to support begins until the first payment. Nothing in the judgment before us indicates a different intent. Consequently, the period of limited alimony or maintenance terminated on October 30, 1983. The petition was filed before that date.
*418Dixon v. Dixon, 107 Wis. 2d 492, 319 N.W.2d 846 (1982), is not to the contrary. The appeal in Dixon was from the divorce judgment itself. The pertinent issue was whether the judgment could prohibit modification of a limited maintenance award. The ambiguities in the opinion regarding the time to seek modification show that the court had not thought of the point before us.