Doub v. Doub’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “[W]e now establish a rule that whenever the parties bring their separation agreements before the court for the court’s approval, it will no longer be treated as a contract between the parties. All separation agreements approved by the court as judgments of the court will be treated similarly, to-wit, as court ordered judgments. These court ordered separation agreements, as consent judgments, are modifiable and enforceable by the contempt powers of the court, in the same manner as any other judgment in a domestic relations case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marks v. Marks

2. “[t]hese court ordered separation agreements, as consent judgments, are modifiable, and enforceable by the contempt powers of the court, in the same manner as any other judgment in a domestic relations case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 175 N.C. App. 144 - Fucito v. Francis

3. “[t]he parties to a consent judgment controlled by Walters do not have an election to enforce such judgment by contempt or to proceed in an independent action in contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 175 N.C. App. 144 - Fucito v. Francis