Sprenger v. Superior Court

In the superior court petitioner (“husband”) " moved for a modification of support payments payable to real party in interest (“wife”) under the terms of a property settlement agreement. The parties are divorced. The divorce is final. Wife opposed the motion and it was denied by respondent court. It held that it lacked jurisdiction because the support payment provision had been a part of an “integrated property settlement agreement,” 1 which the divorce court had had no power to modify. We do not agree with that conclusion. There is ambiguity—uncertainty—in the agreement. Contemporaneously…