McCray v. McCray

Notwithstanding my disapproval of the careless and inexcusably sloppy handling1 of the property rights of the parties in the original decree, I respectfully dissent.

Our appellant invoked the jurisdiction of the divorce court seeking a divorce and a division of the community property. The decree in our record reveals that he was present in court with his counsel at a time when it “was announced to the Court that the parties hereto had agreed to a property settlement”, as noted in the majority opinion. Our appellant knew that this agreement bound him to make monthly payments over a period of…