Frederick v. Frederick

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that prenuptial agreement intended to defraud government of taxes was unenforceable in its entirety: “Where the consideration for an agreement is entire and inseparable and a part of the consideration is illegal, the whole agreement is unenforceable.”
• holding prenuptial agreement unenforceable: “A contract, the pur pose of which is to defraud the U.S. government out of tax money, is an illegal and unenforceable contract.”
• declining to enforce an agreement to evade federal taxes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Purcell & Wardrope Chartered v. Hertz Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-11-21· cited 55×
• Gordon v. Bauer
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-11-23· cited 33×
• Murphy v. Rochford
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-12-08· cited 30×
• Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. John Hancock Life Insurance
  S.D. Indiana· 2008-11-25· cited 15×
• Chapman ex rel. Will & of the Estate of Chapman v. Citizens & Southern National Bank ex rel. Will & of the Estate of Chapman
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1990-07-23· cited 5×
• Chapman v. C&S NAT. BANK OF SC
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1990-07-23· cited 4×
• In re the Estate of O'Rourke
  New York Surrogate's Court· 1994-03-15· cited 1×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Douthart v. Congdon
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1902-06-19· cited 38×
• Conway v. Garden City Paving & Post Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1901-04-18· cited 15×
• Dormeyer v. Haffa
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1951-05-07· cited 10×
• Dall v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1949-11-21· cited 9×