Terwilliger v. Terwilliger

STUMBO, Justice.

In October 1993, Thomas Terwilliger, filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage, seeking to end his seventeen-year marriage to Judith Terwilliger, the Appellant herein. Mr. Terwilliger drafted a marital settlement agreement providing for custody, visitation, and support of the couple’s two minor children, as well as division of the couple’s marital property and debts. The parties then signed this agreement, both acting pro se, at Mr. Terwilliger’s urging.

The Terwilligers owned several closely-held corporations which were subject to division as marital property. Mr.…