In Re the Marriage of Lorge
Montana Supreme Court
1DissentJustice Sheehy
I dissent because the majority does not give any direction to the District Court or remand on how to afford relief to the wife. The majority tells the wife she is stuck with a decree that does not incorporate the settlement agreement. Without the protection of an incorporated agreement in a decree, enforcible as a judgment, there is little the District Court can do to aid the wife and prod a husband who is flouting the court and the wife on terms he and the wife had agreed to as proper. The wife is only further delayed here.
Larger than the effect of delaying wife’s relief (and that is serious…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Shook v. WoodardMontana Supreme Court · 1955
- The Montana Power Company, a Montana Corporation v. The Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1964