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Alimony And Child Support In Ohio: New Directions After Dissolution, William Louis Tabac

Cleveland State Law Review

Recent decisions by the Ohio Supreme Court will undoubtedly have significant impact upon post-dissolution alimony and child support. In rejecting basic premises upon which domestic relations courts have historically ordered such payments, the court has set new directions. Traditional notions of sex-based roles in the support of the family have been set aside and new standards, based upon the needs of the parties and the factual circumstances in particular cases, have been established. As a result, the husband's statutory duty to support his wife and children during marriage will no longer govern his responsibilities toward the family following dissolution, and …

The Effect Of The New Age Of Majority On Preexisting Child Support Settlements, Nicholas C. Dipiazza

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Since the enactment of the twenty-sixth amendment to the United States Constitution, most states passed legislation lowering the age of majority from twenty-one to eighteen. A crucial question arising from these statutes is whether they affect or should affect child support settlements which provide for support to the child until he or she reaches the age of majority. This note discusses the key question whether children have a continuing right to support until age twenty-one under settlements resulting from divorce decrees and agreements made prior to the enactment of the new age of majority laws. The note analyzes the conflicts …

The Child Support Enforcement Process Study, David L. Chambers

Book Chapters

Do divorced fathers under orders of child support pay? We have found a large county in Michigan where most fathers pay most of the time.

Each Michigan county contains an unusual agency that oversees nearly all matters relating to divorce. Known as the Friend of the Court, the agency advises the circuit judges on child custody and the appropriate amount of support orders in all divorce cases in which there are children. Throughout the life of the decree, it receives all payments from the support-paying parent and remits them to the other parent, the guardian, or, in welfare cases, the …

Domestic Relations--Child Support--Equal Obligation Of Parents, James A. Liotta

West Virginia Law Review

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Enforcement Of Support Obligations: A Solution And Continuing Problems, David C. Fannin

Kentucky Law Journal

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Family Support From Fugitive Fathers: A Proposed Amendment To Michigan's Long Arm Statute, Robert L. Nelson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

It is the purpose of this article to propose and discuss an amendment to Michigan's long arm statute which will allow the entry of extraterritorial alimony, separate maintenance, or child support decrees when Michigan is the state of the marital domicile and the defendant-spouse cannot be located for personal service of process. A plaintiff employing the proposed provision in a divorce action will be able to seek alimony, separate maintenance, or support payments as if the defendant were before the court, and the court will have the authority to grant her the necessary relief. If and when the wife later …

Domestic Relations--Constitutionality Of The West Virginia Nonsupport Statute, David L. Core

West Virginia Law Review

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Domestic Relations -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, T. A. Smedley

Vanderbilt Law Review

Though most of the family law decisions of the supreme court and appellate courts of Tennessee reported during 1964 were of the common garden variety, four cases presented issues of notable significance, and in three of them the supreme court seems to have decided questions of first impression in this jurisdiction. As usual, the most common cause of controversy lay in matters of alimony, child support, and property settlements; but there were also decisions regarding grounds for divorce, child custody, the wife's right to damages for loss of the husband's consortium, and the parents' liability for a child's tort. Three …

Criminal Law--Extradition For Nonsupport, Fred Adkins

West Virginia Law Review

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Divorce Under The New Code, Dan Hopson Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Divorce And Alimony Under The New Code, Dan Hopson Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Economics Of A Divorce: A Pilot Empirical Study At The Trial Court Level, Dan Hopson Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Foreword: Student Symposium On The Child And The Law, Dan Hopson Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Domestic Relations--Survivorship Of A Child Support Agreement After The Death Of The Father, A. M. P.

West Virginia Law Review

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Blood Tests And Disputed Parentage, Lowell R. Bowen

Maryland Law Review

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Continuing Jurisdiction In Divorce Cases, Otto Miller Iii

Cleveland State Law Review

This paper discusses whether or not a divorce court, by granting a continuing order for support and/or alimony, thereby retains such jurisdiction over the person that it need only give notice by mail or publication before reducing an arrearage to a lump sum judgment which, under "due process" is entitled to full faith and credit in the courts of sister States. It is assumed that the court had jurisdiction over the person of the defendant at the time the order for support and/or alimony was originally granted.

Criminal Procedure-Extradition For Non-Support Under Section 6 Of The Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, David D. Dowd, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner had been divorced while residing in the State of California and ordered to pay $30 per month to his wife for the support of three minor children. After moving to New Mexico he defaulted in the payments. The Governor of California requested the extradition of the petitioner under section 6 of the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act to answer the charge of failure to provide for minor children. Petitioner questioned his detention under the order for extradition by seeking a writ of habeas corpus in an original proceeding before the Supreme Court of New Mexico. Held, writ denied. Section …

Non-Resident Attachment For Overdue Support Payments - Langville V. Langville

Maryland Law Review

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Trusts-Right Of Divorced Wife Of Beneficiary Of Spendthrift Trust To Reach The Beneficiary's Interest In The Trust For Alimony And Support For Children, W. Wallace Kent

Michigan Law Review

P, divorced wife of D, brought this action for alimony and for support money for her children. The object of the action was to reach the income from a spendthrift trust created for the benefit of D and his present wife and children in the will of D's mother. The will specifically provided that none of the proceeds of the trust were to go to P or her child. Held, the settlor had the right to devise her property in any manner she chose. There is nothing in the statutes or decisions of Wisconsin which forbid …

Further On "Alimony" For The Support Of Both Wife And Child - Knabe V. Knabe

Maryland Law Review

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Parent And Child - Effect Of Adoption On Duty Of: Parent To Support Child, Marcus L. Plant

Michigan Law Review

The defendant, father of the child whose support was in question, was-divorced by the plaintiff, mother of the child, in 1927. At that time, with the consent of both parties, the maternal grandparents adopted the child. In 1931 the grandfather died insolvent, and in 1933 the grandmother remarried and left the state. In 1934 the plaintiff adopted the child, and brought suit against the defendant for its support. The court entered an order requiring him to pay ten dollars per week for that purpose. After compliance for several months the defendant stopped payment, and in contempt proceedings protested the validity …

"Alimony" For The Support Of Both Wife And Child - Cohen V. Cohen

Maryland Law Review

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"Alimony" For The Support Of Both Wife And Child - Cohen V. Cohen

Maryland Law Review

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The Duty Of The Husband To Support The Wife, Robert C. Brown

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Constitutional Law-Due Process-Procedure

Michigan Law Review

New York Code of Criminal Procedure, sections 921-925, provides, in substance, that the Commissioner of Public Welfare may apply to two magistrates and, upon a showing that a husband or father owning property in the jurisdiction has absconded leaving a wife or children likely to become charges on the public, may secure a warrant for the seizure of such property and that, after confirmation of the warrant by the county court, such property may be applied to the support of the spouse or children. No sort of notice to the absentee is required. Held, affirming the decision of the …