Hussein-Scott v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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• noting that we disfavor the rule that language should be “construe[d] . . . against its drafter . . . in interpreting marriage settlement agreements”
• “[S]elf-serving testimony at the time of litigation about the parties’ past intentions is not particularly probative [when interpreting a contract].”
• “[A]ssessment of witness credibility is the exclusive province of the fact-finder, and we will not revisit that assessment on appeal.”
• “We have refused to construe a marriage settlement agreement against the drafting party.”
• applying AS 25.25.604 to analyze a Florida marital settlement agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).