Oedekoven v. Oedekoven

RAPER, Justice.

One serious question, as we see it, arises in this appeal: Is contempt the proper path to travel when a property settlement agreement is only ratified and confirmed by the divorce decree, without incorporating a direction that the parties comply with its terms? There are other significant queries raised by appellant intertwined with that problem which we shall dispose of at the time they are reached.

A property settlement agreement was placed in the court file on February 3, 1969, and noted on the docket. The appellant-defendant and the appellee-plaintiff, at an uncontested…