32 N.C. App. 83 - Riddle v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2015
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bunn v. Bunn · Holden v. Holden · Mitchell v. Mitchell · Stanley v. . Stanley · In Re the Custody of Davis
Most-quoted passages
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“Riddle holds, in accordance with general principles of contract law, that a separation agreement must be enforced according to its own terms. The applicable provision of this separation agreement, quoted at the outset, provides that [the] plaintiff is to pay [the] defendant certain sums of money. This obligation is to continue until the happening of certain events stated in the agreement (i.e.: emancipation of the child, remarriage of [the] defendant). The agreement also confirms the right of the parties to "live separate and apart" and provides that "neither party shall interfere with the rights, privileges, doings or actions of the other." Under the agreement, cohabitation by [the] defendant with another man does not constitute a breach of the agreement or grounds for termination of [the] plaintiff's support obligation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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