Annechino v. Joire

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• holding that Section 3323(f) may be used to enforce a marital settlement agreement
• holding that Section 3323(f) may be used to enforce a marital settlement agreement
• explaining that legislature has provided that almost all matters involving family law issues should be heard under Divorce Code, which would be in family court division of those courts having separate divisions
• establishing that a party “may use a remedy or sanction set forth in the Divorce Code to enforce the agreement to the same extent as though the agreement had been an order of court”
• writing that the legislature, through a statutory amendment, intended to encourage “the resolution of economic claims by agreement [rather than] send economic claims relating to divorce over to the civil division as a breach of contract claim[]”
• A party can seek enforcement of a marital settlement agreement entered into after passage of the Divorce Code via contempt proceedings in addition to being able to seek enforcement of the marital settlement agreement via a new assumpsit or equity action.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).