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CYNTHIA LAWRENCE v. THOMAS LAWRENCE

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Nov 12, 2021

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: S. Denise McCrary and William L. Bomer, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Thomas Humphrey Lawrence.

Attorneys 2: Mitchell D. Moskovitz and Aubrey L. Brown, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellee, Cynthia Lawrence.

Judge(s): ARMSTRONG

In this post-divorce case, the trial court granted Appellee/Wife’s petition to modify paragraph 4(A)(d) of the parties’ Marital Dissolution Agreement (“MDA”) on its finding of mutual mistake. The trial court declined to: (1) reform paragraph 4(A)(e) of the MDA; (2) find Appellant/Husband in contempt of the MDA for failure to reimburse Wife for certain college expenses of the parties’ son; (3) hold Husband in contempt for his alleged failure to satisfy his support obligations; and (4) award Wife her attorney’s fees under the MDA. Because there was no mutual mistake, we reverse the trial court’s reformation of paragraph 4(A)(d) of the MDA. The trial court’s orders are otherwise affirmed, and Wife’s motion for appellate attorney’s fees is denied.

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