Gillan v. Gillan

How courts have described this case

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

• applying New York law and § 188(1) to a separation agreement dispute
• Griffith overruled a substantial body of Pennsylvania case law and adopted the new Restatement of Conflict of Laws (Second
• law of state where separation agreement was entered into applies to issue of collusion, but law of parties’ present domicile governs enforceability
• “[I]t would be error for us to apply the old, single reference rule that ... the place where the contract became binding, or the place where it was to be performed, controls the choice of law.”
• “[I]t would be error for us to apply the old, single reference rule that . . . the place where the contract became binding, or the place where it was to be performed, controls the choice of law.”
• applying § 188 to contractual choice of law determination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).