In Walters v. Walters, 307 N.C. 381, 298 S.E.2d 338 (1983), our Supreme Court reviewed the law of consent decrees and held that whenever the parties bring their separation agreements before the court for the court's approval, it will no longer be treated as a contract between the parties. All separation agreements approved by the court as judgments of the court will be treated similarly, to-wit, as court ordered judgments. These court ordered separation agreements, as consent judgments, are modifiable, and enforceable by the contempt powers of the court, in the same manner as any other judgment in a domestic relations case. . . . This new rule applies only to this case and all such judgments entered after this decision. Walters, 307 N.C. at 386, 298 S.E.2d at 342.