Court Opinion

ID: 9571935
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:36:26.362756+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:31:12.080817
License: Public Domain

PAGE, Justice
(concurring specially).
While I concur in the result reached by the court, I write separately to express my concern about this protracted litigation which continues more than 14 years after the parties’ marriage was dissolved. In 1983, the parties engaged in extensive negotiations and ultimately executed a stipulation purporting to fix their relative rights and responsibilities and representing their various compromises with regard to the division of the marital assets and the award of temporary maintenance to assist S. Hecker in achieving self-sufficiency.1 While S. Hecker did not achieve self-sufficiency, it seems to me that, at some point, there should be some finality to this litigation that would allow these parties to pursue their independent lives without resort to the continued use of judicial proceedings and judicial resources.

. I note, in passing, that S. Hecker’s failure to achieve self-sufficiency appears from the record to be more a failure to make an effort to become self-sufficient than an actual failure to become self-sufficient.