Brown v. Fullenweider

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding decree‘s failure to identify attorney by name was insufficient to confer third-party beneficiary status on him concerning decree‘s allocation of the payment of his fees
• holding that a decree of divorce was not a third-party beneficiary agreement in favor of one party’s attorney because the decree did not name the attorney and merely allocated responsibility for the payment of his fees, along with other financial obligations, between the parties
• stating purpose of suit to enforce is A to provide an expeditious procedure for enforcing and clarifying property divisions in divorce decrees. @
• decree allocated responsibility for attorney's fees between spouses but was not an \award\ of fees to the attorney
• “[T]he obvious purpose of former sections 3.70–.77 of the Family Code, currently sections 9.001–.014, was to provide an expeditious procedure for enforcing and clarifying property divisions in divorce decrees.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).