BUFFINGTON v. BUFFINGTON

No. 8321DC978.

317 S.E.2d 97 (1984)

Larry Earl BUFFINGTON v. Marsha R. BUFFINGTON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morrow & Reavis by John F. Morrow and Clifton R. Long, Jr., Winston-Salem, for plaintiff.

Barbara C. Westmoreland, Winston-Salem, for defendant.


WELLS, Judge.

Defendant's appeal raises for the first time the question whether the passage of the Equitable Distribution Act, which permits property settlements executed "[b]efore, during or after marriage," alters our state's former public policy, expressed in the prior decisional law of this state, which permitted such agreements only where the parties had already separated or separated immediately after execution of the agreement.

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