In Re the Marriage of Mallon

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• noting that subject matter jurisdiction may not be raised to attack collaterally a final judgment
• noting that issue preclusion applies to later “independent proceedings” but isn’t a bar to a “party’s later 17 assertions in the same litigation”
• noting that the modern rule gives finality substantially greater weight than validity
• law of the case, which applies to progressive arguments made in the same action, is a discretionary rule of practice
• although husband urged error on basis of res judicata, which doctrine did not. apply, court considered substance of argument under different framework

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