Scott v. Scott

DAY, District Judge.

This case involves the question of full faith and credit to be given to a Nevada divorce decree and more particularly, whether our court can modify a “property settlement agreement” payable as installments of alimony provided for therein.

In 1961, while the parties were residents of Nevada, the plaintiff brought suit for a divorce against the defendant herein, in the District Court of Clark County. The defendant filed an answer, hut on February 6, 1961, the date the case was heard, he and the plaintiff with their respective attorneys entered into what was entitled as a…