Walker v. Estate of Mays

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that wife and children were required to file an application for discretionary review to appeal trial court order in breach-of-contract case because underlying subject matter related to rights and obligations under husband and wife’s divorce decree
• breach of contract action, based on settlement agreement incorporated into divorce decree, was a domestic relations case
• “The rights of the parties after a divorce is granted [and a settlement agreement is incorporated into the final divorce decree] are based not on the settlement agreement, but on the judgment itself.”
• appeals in domestic relations cases must be brought by discretionary appeal
• “The rights of the parties after a divorce is granted are based not on the settlement agreement, but on the judgment itself. Thus, whatever claim [the parties] have is founded on the final decree, and not on the underlying agreement.”
• “The rights of the parties after a divorce is granted are based not on the settlement agreement, but on the judgment itself. Thus, whatever claim [the parties] have is founded on the final decree, and not on the underlying agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).