Southerland v. Estate of Southerland

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the general rules of contract construction to property settlement agreements
• “Property settlement agreements are contracts and are subject to the same rules of construction that apply to the interpretation of contracts generally.”
• applying general contract rules of construction to property settlement agreements
• wife’s release in property settlement agreement of all right, title, and interest in property of husband effective to relinquish any interest she may have had arising from his life insurance contract despite fact he had not removed her as beneficiary before his death
• property settlement agreement in connection with divorce suit
• property settlement agreement in connection with divorce suit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).