Chafin v. Chafin’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 2013
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on May v. Anderson · 964 So. 2d 1 - Jimmy Day Plumbing & Heating, Inc. v. Smith · 394 So. 2d 41 - Lightell v. Lightell · Coleman v. Coleman · Hein v. Fuller
Most-quoted passages
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“When the defendant is a nonresident, the other party to the marriage must have been a bona fide resident of this state for six months next before the filing of the complaint, which must be alleged in the complaint and proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware v. Ware
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