Common Contracts
1 similar Marital Separation Agreement contracts
MARITAL SEPARATION AGREEMENT (MSA)Marital Separation Agreement • March 26th, 2012
Generally, a Marital Separation Agreement is drawn up according to the law of the state in which at least one party lives. When executed and witnessed properly, it is an enforceable contract between the parties, but is not in itself an undertaking to become divorced. Most parties ultimately do file for divorce, at which time an Agreement may be "incorporated" into the eventual divorce judgment. "Incorporation" means that the Agreement also takes on the contempt power of the Court and can be enforced by the Court, just as the terms of the divorce judgment can be. Depending on which ground for divorce you will be filing under, you and your spouse may proceed to divorce and request that the Agreement be incorporated into the divorce judgment.
