Thomas M. Dennis v. Shelia F. Dennis

COLEMAN, JUSTICE,

DISSENTING:

¶ 31. The quasi-contractual nature of property-settlement - agreements notwithstanding, child support-awards are legally enforceable not because the parties might agree to them but because the court orders them. To the extent that the majority holds that the controlling principles of law empower an award of child support to a child not of the marriage because the parties agree to such child support in the property-settlement agreement, I cannot join it.

¶ 32. Property-settlement agreements may well be, as the majority writes, quasi-contractual in nature, but…