Court upholds contractual payments: ex-husband must keep paying fuel, health cover

In Louisiana, a couple's 2016 divorce agreement required an ex-husband to pay his former wife's fuel and health insurance expenses; a court upheld the obligations after her remarriage and rejected her claim to half of a property sold for $500,000A Louisiana appeals court has upheld a 2016 agreement that a former couple made, ruling that an ex-husband’s contractual obligations to pay his former wife’s fuel and health insurance expenses did not automatically end when she remarried. The Third Circuit Court of Appeal issued its written opinion on October 30, 2026. It affirmed the trial court’s 2025 judgment in full.

The same court rejected the woman’s claim to half the money from a house her ex-husband’s company later sold.The divorce and agreementsThe Louisiana couple married in 1994. The marriage lasted for 22 years, and they divorced in 2016. Following the divorce, the former couple signed a court-approved agreement that divided some of their property.Under that agreement, the woman could use of a 2014 Jeep and a 2015 Cadillac.

She agreed to pay for their upkeep and insurance.