Quillen v. Quillen

This case marks a pivotal point in the direction this Court will follow in regard to divorce settlement agreements. Over my dissent, this Court has already allowed parties to circumvent the judicial process altogether by executing judicially-unsupervised contracts that resolve issues arising out of the dissolution of the marriage contract. Eickhoff v. Eickhoff, 263 Ga. 498 (435 SE2d 914) (1993). With the instant case this Court is now permitting parties, whose settlement agreement was incorporated into a divorce decree, to divest the trial court of all supervision over its decree by upholding…