Knox v. Remick

How courts have described this case

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

• “Parents may not bargain away the rights of their children to support from either one of them”
• modification to spousal support award justified when spouse became public charge subsequent to the execution and incorporation of the separation agreement
• “[S]pecific performance of an agreement concerning support payments might be denied where the plaintiff had not complied with some other provision in the separation agreement.”
• separation agreement is “a permanent resolution of [a married couple’s] mutual rights and obligations, including support obligations between them”
• parents may not bargain away the rights of their children to support
• ‘“[B]ecause ‘[p]arents may not bargain away the rights of their children to support from either one of them,’ ... the Legislature has placed certain limits on the ability of parents to enter into binding contracts relating to child support”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).