Cayan v. Cayan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that agreements under section 6.602 are binding and that a party to one is entitled to judgment based on the agreement.
• stating that section 6.602 was enacted to create a procedural short cut for the enforcement of mediated settlement agreements in divorce cases
• reasoning that the Legislature created a \procedural shortcut\ by enacting section 6.602 so that parties could enforce this settlement agreement as soon as it was signed
• section 6.602 is exception to section 7.001 in allowing judgment to be entered without determination by trial court that terms of agreement are just and right
• section 6.602 is exception to section 7.001 in allowing judgment to be entered without determination by trial court that terms of agreement are just and right
• “[T]he prohibition against divesting a spouse of separate property applies only to judicial, i.e. , unagreed , divestitures and does not restrict the parties from dividing separate property by agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).