How have courts treated the issue of maintenance of a relationship where the maintenance agreement has for its object the securing of a divorce?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Glickman v. Collins, 114 Cal.Rptr. 799, 40 Cal.App.3d 214 (Cal. App. 1974):

In Beach v. Arblaster, 194 Cal.App.2d 145, at page 160, 14 Cal.Rptr. 854, at page 863, the court said: '. . . Any agreement which has for its object the dissolution of the marriage contract or facilities such dissolution is void as contra bonos mores. [Citations.]' The court in Hare v. McGue, 178 Cal. 740, at page 741, 174 P. 663, said: '. . . [T]he law is extremely solicitous about the maintenance of the marriage relation, and will not tolerate or sanction any contract which by its terms or obvious tendency has for its object the securing of a divorce.'

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