Sonder v. Sonder

This case raises issues central to our family law jurisprudence and provides this court an opportunity to eliminate the confusion surrounding these issues which has persisted in our case law for years. The crux of the matter is a question of the power of our courts — their power to modify and enforce obligations relating to child support, alimony, property distribution upon divorce, and property settlement or separation agreements incorporated and/or merged into *530divorce decrees. Although we have addressed many forms of this question, arising from fact patterns as diverse as they are numerous,…