Bruni v. Bruni

This case involves the requisites for enforcing an agreement to provide child support beyond age eighteen. The court of appeals held that the agreement between Mary Ann Smothers Bruni (Smothers) and Robert Joseph Bruni (Bruni) was not enforceable because it did not expressly provide for enforceability in contract, as required by section 14.06 of the Texas Family Code, 1 and was not approved by the trial court nor incorporated into the parties’ divorce decree. — S.W.2d - [1995 WL 612399], We disagree and reverse the judgment of the court of appeals.

Smothers and Bruni divorced in 1975. They had…