Waggoner v. Waggoner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court was without jurisdiction to hear the wife’s “motion to clarify” filed more than 30 days after entry of divorce decree because the wife’s motion sought “to engraft new obligations onto the decree”
• stating “a court in a divorce proceeding retains jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing its decrees”
• finding the divorce decree was res judicata, as the “plaintiff has not made any demonstration that circumstances have changed so as to warrant a modification of the child-support provisions of the decree”
• court could not modify judgment to require husband to remove judgment liens against marital residence which was awarded to wife

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).