Degree v. Degree

MARTIN, Judge.

The issue on appeal is whether the District Court of Guilford County should have assumed jurisdiction, in this case, to enforce alimony provisions of the 1978 separation agreement. We conclude the court had no jurisdiction to hear the matter of alimony enforcement.

Plaintiffs “supplemental complaint” was clearly a motion in the cause to modify the alimony provisions of the 1978 separation agreement. However, the separation agreement was not incorporated into a court order, but rather remained a contract between, the parties. As such, it was enforceable only as an ordinary…