Parties’ oral open-court stipulation to their property settlement agreement (PSA) satisfied rule governing conditions under which a court may, on motion, enforce an agreement to settle pending litigation such that trial court could later enter divorce decree incorporating the PSA even without husband’s signature; husband acknowledged, under oath, the PSA’s key terms, that he had reviewed it, and that he agreed to its terms, and court minutes stated, “COURT ORDERED, absolute DECREE OF DIVORCE is GRANTED pursuant to the terms and conditions as outlined in the proposed Property Settlement Agreement, marked and admitted as Exhibit A, and lodged in the left hand side of the file.”
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