Jaffee v. Jaffee

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• holding it improper to vary terms of property settlement agreement “through the insertion of qualifying language which does not appear on its face”
• totally meritless attempt to reduce or eliminate alimony made the husband liable for all instead of half of attorney's fees expended in defending against his motion
• the parties’ MSA provided that wife’s resumption of work as a nurse could not be the basis for husband to seek reduction in alimony
• error for trial court to order former husband to pay only one-half of former wife's attorney's fees where former husband's motion to reduce or eliminate alimony was totally meritless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).