In Re Marriage of Hopwood

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• a plaintiff must assert its own legal rights and interests rather than basing its claim upon the rights of third parties
• “[I]f liability for the debt became fixed against Carol, by judgment or settlement, a cause of action would have accrued to her pursuant to Tim’s obligation to indemnify her against liability.” (emphasis added)
• “When one party is ordered to pay a joint debt in a dissolution proceeding, the party ordered to pay the debt (the indemnitor) incurs an obligation to indemnify the other party (the indemnitee) from any obligation on the debt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).