Leffler v. Leffler’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1986
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“No assertion of fraud or mistake attendant upon the execution of the separation agreement is made. So long as a separation agreement stands unimpeached, the court cannot alter or change a provision for separate maintenance and support of the wife without the consent of both parties ... [Ajbsent such impeachment, there is no authority for the court to cancel a contract made by the parties and in its place substitute one which it thinks proper but which as a matter of fact the parties had never assented to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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