Radakovich v. Radakovich

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an order entered in a non-final divorce action that awarded the parties’ son an interest in a brokerage account was appealable as a collateral order
• stating that “[p]ursuant to the doctrine of res judicata, a final judgment on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction will bar any future suit between the parties or their privies in connection with the cause of action.”
• where a divorce decree has not been entered and ancillary claims remain unresolved, issues such as those seeking special relief are interlocutory and unappealable
• “[A]ny rights [appellant] may have as to the account will be irreparably lost if review is postponed until a final divorce decree is entered since [s]on could dissipate the funds in their entirety.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).