Gertrude L.Q. v. Stephen P.Q.

How courts have described this case

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

• following “the well-established principle that in construing a contract a court cannot in effect rewrite it or supply omitted provisions”
• defining a stipulation as “in effect, an agreement or admission made in a judicial proceeding by the parties thereto in respect to same [sic] matter incident to the proceeding for the purpose of avoiding delay, trouble, and expense”
• affirming the Family Court’s conclusion that a “stipulation was an agreement made in a divorce action between the husband and wife in respect of alimony and property distribution” and therefore “a contract between the husband and wife concerning alimony”
• courts cannot make new contract for parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).