O'Connell v. O'Connell

This cause is here on the petitioner’s appeal from a decree of the family court denying and dismissing a petition to enforce a property-settlement agreement affecting the support of one of the minor children of the parties.

The narrow issue raised by this appeal is whether the family court had jurisdiction to enforce such agreement.

The mother, of Goshen, New York, is herein referred to as petitioner and the father, of Warwick, Rhode Island, as respondent. They were married in Middletown, New York, in 1948. As .a result of marital disagreements they entered into a separation agreement on August…