Background:Carter is preparing to present a professional development seminar for all the LRC paralegals and legal assistants. She tasks you with preparing some answers to questions about a court opinion that she will use in the seminar materials.

Use Westlaw to retrieve the opinion located at:2006 ME 30. (This citation format is known as"medium neutral" citationor "universal citation" format. A few U.S. jurisdictions use this for their official reporters and codes.)Read the opinionand respond to the following items.

Questions:

1. Cite the opinion, in correctBluebookformat.

2. The Petitioner is the person who files for divorce/dissolution; the Respondent is the opposing party. In this case, who is the Petitioner, the husband or the wife?

3. Why did the trial court have personal jurisdiction over the Petitioner? Explain your answer.

4. Why didn't the trial court have personal jurisdiction over the Respondent? Explain your answer.

5. Why did the court have the authority to dissolve the parties' marriage, butlack the authority to distribute their marital property?Explain your answer.