Lashkajani v. Lashkajani

How courts have described this case

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• reconfirming a spouse’s obligation as “including the responsibility for attorney's fees and costs,” which cannot be contracted away
• “Trial courts do not have the discretion to decline to enforce ... provisions [in contracts for awards of fees and costs to the prevailing party], even if the challenging party brings a meritorious claim in good faith.”
• valid prenuptial agreements are enforced just like any other contract
• “Trial courts do not have the discretion to decline to enforce such provisions, even if the challenging party brings a meritorious claim in good faith. Such provisions exist to ‘protect and indemnify’ the interests of the parties, not to enrich the party.”
• “Provisions in ordinary contracts awarding attorney’s fees and costs to the prevailing party are generally enforced. * * * Trial courts do not have the discretion to decline to enforce such provisions, even if the challenging party brings a meritorious claim in good faith.”
• “Valid prenuptial agreements regarding post-dissolution support are contracts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).