Smith v. Smith

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee Mrs. Laura Shirley Volckmar Smith against her former husband appellant Charles Corless Smith seeking a money judgment for payments alleged to be due and unpaid pursuant to a court-approved written property settlement agreement entered into by the parties in connection with their divorce in 1962.

The agreement is more than nine pages long and goes into considerable detail as to child support for the four children of the parties and also as to the settlement of their property rights. By the terms of paragraph eight of the contract appellant…