Attaching page break to a paragraph style. Can I?

I know that we can set a paragraph to start on the next, left or right page, but is it possible to make a paragraph style that makes that para. the last one on the page? So I want the page break function attached to a style.
thanks
jon

[Jongware] wrote:
Did you try Scott's advice: set the Space After of that last paragraph to 20 inch?
When I tried this, it seemed to work, but I decided against suggesting it because I was also playing with some other settings that affected subsequent paragraphs, and I wasn't sure if the combination was making it appear to work. Growing up in FrameMaker, I learned that space before a paragraph is ignored at top of frame/column/page, and space after a paragraph is ignored at bottom of frame/column/page.
Well, lah de dah, InDesign honors space after a paragraph. Bingo. Simplest.
However, I'm curious why it's important to mark the end of one contributor's work this way, rather than marking the start of another contributor's work by applying the start at top of frame/column/page property. Unless the first new contribution paragraph is moved to another position in the sequence, first is always first; Next Style assures that pressing Return at the end of the first paragraph when authoring, or selecting multiple paragraphs and applying the top-of-container style to the first paragraph and letting the Next Style option handle the rest of the selection.
When the last paragraph moves forward in the text flow, or a paragraph is added after it, the new contributor's first paragraph at the top of the next container is not affected; if sufficient content is added or removed upstream to reflow the later contributors' work top-of-container always works as expected.
Is there some compelling reason not to mark the author change by the first-paragraph-at-top method?
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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