Filan v. Filan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that because the former husband's obligation to pay off a mortgage was in the nature of settlement of property rights and not support, the contempt power of the trial court was erroneously invoked
• contempt power of court may not be invoked if an obligation is in the nature of property settlement and not support
• “If an obligation is in the nature of settlement of property rights as opposed to alimony, support or maintenance of one to whom the duty is owed, the contempt power of the court cannot be invoked.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).