Towner v. Towner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a periodic payment was a division of marital property and therefore not subject to modification
• holding that payments made as a part of a property division are generally not subject to modification by the court due to changed circumstances
• holding that a marital dissolution agreement should be interpreted by examining the language of the provision and the circumstances under which the agreement was executed and made a part of the court’s judgment
• “The agreement in this case, considered in light of all the circumstances, is essentially a property settlement (Continued...
• provision in marital dissolution agreement requiring husband to make monthly “spousal support/alimony” payments to wife in consideration for her giving up any interest in his military pension held to be division of marital property, rather than alimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).