Court Opinion

ID: 9572325
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:40:50.694276+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:32:28.765275
License: Public Domain

Justice CARLTON
concurring.
I concur in the majority holding, and the reasoning given in support, that a court’s power to enforce a separation agreement set out in a consent judgment is not dependent upon whether the judgment is subject to modification. I cannot agree, however, that we “have never held” to the contrary. If we haven’t, we have come awfully close. As the majority acknowledges, there is language in some of our earlier decisions which led to the understanding that provisions concerning modifiability and enforceability by contempt were interdependent. At any rate, the majority now lays that misunderstanding to rest.