Blondeau v. Baltierra

Summary

The court held that it had jurisdiction to review the order vacating the arbitration award and that the plaintiff's timely motion to vacate was properly before the trial court. It upheld the arbitration award's division of the marital-home equity because the arbitrator neither exceeded the submission nor manifestly disregarded the law, but it held that child-support-related provisions could not be arbitrated and were properly vacated. The court concluded that the child-support provisions were severable and remanded for partial confirmation and partial vacatur.