Roberts v. Roberts

Goolsby, Judge:

This case involves a property settlement agreement that the family court neither incorporated nor merged in its final decree divorcing the respondent Bobbie B. Roberts from the appellant Melvin L. Roberts on September 8, 1981, and approving as fair and equitable and as voluntarily and prop*440erly made the settlement agreement between the parties. After the family court entered its final decree and the time for appeal had lapsed, the family court on January 21,1982, reopened the case “for the purpose of hearing the issues” raised in an amended petition filed by Mrs. Roberts. Mr.…