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Divorce--Cruel Or Inhuman Treatment As Ground For, C. F. S. Jr. Dec 1952

Divorce--Cruel Or Inhuman Treatment As Ground For, C. F. S. Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Payments Under Written Agreement Incident To Divorce, David W. Rowlinson S. Ed. Nov 1952

Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Payments Under Written Agreement Incident To Divorce, David W. Rowlinson S. Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner and her husband separated in January 1919 after marital difficulties. The following sequence of events transpired in the next four months: the husband employed detectives to follow his wife and discover evidence on which a divorce action could be predicated; petitioner instituted proceedings for legal separation; a separation agreement was executed under which the husband was to give petitioner an initial payment of $200,000 and subsequent annual payments of $30,000 for her life; the husband began a suit for divorce to which petitioner counterclaimed for a divorce; a divorce was decreed in favor of petitioner. Petitioner did not ask …


Recent Cases Jun 1952

Recent Cases

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Negligence-Liability For Negligence Of Minor Driver Imputed To Person Signing M:Rnor's Application For Driver's License, George D. Miller, Jr. May 1952

Negligence-Liability For Negligence Of Minor Driver Imputed To Person Signing M:Rnor's Application For Driver's License, George D. Miller, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A father signed his daughter's application for a driver's license in accordance with the terms of a Utah statute, which required that the application for a minor's driver's license be signed by the parent or guardian, and imputed liability for the minor's negligence or wilful misconduct to the person signing the application. Before the daughter reached her majority (i.e., eighteenth birthday), the following events took place: (1) her mother was given sole custody of her in a divorce action; (2) she married; and (3) she negligently drove her car against the plaintiff, who brought suit against the daughter, her husband, …


Evidence-Privilege-Confidential Communications Between Husband And Wife, James I. Huston Apr 1952

Evidence-Privilege-Confidential Communications Between Husband And Wife, James I. Huston

Michigan Law Review

Husband sued for divorce alleging that wife drank excessively and humiliated him in public by her conduct, and that she continually made false and profane accusations designed to make his life unbearable. As proof of the latter charge, plaintiff was allowed to introduce in evidence a wire recording of conversations between plaintiff and defendant in their bedroom. Plaintiff's son by a previous marriage had, by prearrangement with plaintiff, installed in their bedroom a microphone connected to a wire-recorder in the son's adjoining bedroom, with which recordings were made of four separate conversations between plaintiff and defendant. The recordings substantiated plaintiff's …


Conflict Of Laws-Full Faith And Credit-Custody Decrees, James I. Huston Feb 1952

Conflict Of Laws-Full Faith And Credit-Custody Decrees, James I. Huston

Michigan Law Review

Husband and wife, living in Ohio, were separated in 1945, the only child going to live with the paternal great-grandfather in Pennsylvania. Husband and wife were divorced in Ohio in April 1949. Custody of the child was awarded the wife, but because of the wife's defective vision the child was to remain temporarily with the great-grandfather; it was further provided that the custody question could be relitigated after eighteen months. On October 26, 1949, the wife got a further Ohio decree awarding her sole custody. The great-grandfather refused to surrender the child, and wife filed a petition for habeas corpus …


The Equitable Theory Of Injunction In Domestic Relations, Moss H. Thompson Jan 1952

The Equitable Theory Of Injunction In Domestic Relations, Moss H. Thompson

Cleveland State Law Review

Adequate protection in the nature of injunctive relief has been extended to all branches of the law where there is a primary property right to be protected. Despite the rapid development in the field of equitable relief it has always been considered extraneous to actions in domestic relations. The majority of the courts will not protect marital and domestic rights from third party intervention because such action involves a personal right rather than a necessary property right. There is adequate reason for a change in this precept which delegates personality to such an insecure position. Only a limited number of …


Divorce: "Living Apart" Under The Same Roof?--Hawkins V. Hawkins, James F. Hoge Jan 1952

Divorce: "Living Apart" Under The Same Roof?--Hawkins V. Hawkins, James F. Hoge

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.