Does the court have an obligation to respect an individual's agreement with respect to their rights and liabilities following their separation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Chutter v. Chutter, 2016 BCSC 2407 (CanLII):
It is generally important to respect separation agreements. Courts should respect the rights of individuals to enter into agreements with respect to their rights and liabilities following a separation. Parties who have properly entered into separation agreements have a legitimate interest in certainty and the courts should be reluctant to disrupt that interest. Indeed, courts have an obligation to respect the agreements parties have properly entered into: Goulding v. Keck, 2014 ABCA 138 at para. 26.
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