Flynn v. Flynn

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This case came before us on appeal by the plaintiff, Lucia M. Flynn, from a Family Court order denying her motion to adjudge the defendant and former husband, Raymond A. Flynn, in contempt for failure to comply with the final judgment of the parties’ divorce. The issue decided below and raised in this appeal is whether the term “inheritance” as used in the parties’ property-settlement agreement includes funds received by the defendant as a beneficiary to a trust upon the settlor’s death.

The parties were granted a divorce by a final judgment of the Rhode Island Family…