Cullen v. Mellon

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “courts have the responsibility to distribute property between parties on dissolution in a manner that is just and equitable in the circumstances, which means that courts are not required to accept property settlement agreements submitted by the parties”
• courts “are not required to accept property settlement agreements submitted by the parties” in dissolution actions, although a court ordinarily will respect “a considered agreement” absent unfairness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).