Elfeldt v. Elfeldt

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• stating that terms ―are not enforceable as contract terms unless the agreement so provides‖
• stating that terms “are not enforceable as contract terms unless the agreement so provides”
• noting that the “suit was brought as a contract action because a court of continuing jurisdiction under the Family Code has no authority to order or to enforce support for a non-disabled child over eighteen”
• noting that the “suit was brought as a contract action because a court of continuing jurisdiction under the Family Code has no authority to order or to enforce support for a non- disabled child over eighteen”
• applying predecessor statute to an “agreed child support modification order,” which continued the father’s periodic child support payments until the children completed four years of college; agreed order was not enforceable as a contract
• parties to agreement concerning support of nondisabled child over eighteen binding on both parties if expressly contractual

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).