Jackson v. Jackson

Defendant has appealed from an order which determined his arrearages under the provisions of a property settlement agreement, and ordered that execution issue for that sum. (See Code Civ. Proc., § 963, subd. 2; and Crowley v. Superior Court (1936) 17 Cal.App.2d 52, 54 [61 P.2d 372].) He contends that the court had no jurisdiction to make that order in the divorce proceedings because (1) the provisions of the settlement agreement were not effectively merged in the divorce decree; (2) the issue of whether those provisions were incorporated in the divorce decree had been previously determined…