Legal Opinion
Bowmer v. Bowmer
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 1, 1980PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
Confronting in this case the increasingly common use of arbitration in the context of a dispute between former *292spouses, we hold that a separation agreement’s broadly worded arbitration clause, which additionally draws attention to matters specifically made arbitrable elsewhere in the agreement, does not confer authority upon the arbitrator to pass on the husband’s claim that changed circumstances warranted a downward modification of the agreement’s support provisions.
After nearly 17 years of marriage, in April of 1972 John and Dorothy Bowmer entered into a…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Matter of Lipman (Haeuser Shellac Co.)New York Court of Appeals · 1942
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