118 Ohio App. 276 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “"In certain situations in divorce actions, as where a party has violated a previous order or failed to comply with such order, the court may be justified in denying such party affirmative relief,... But where the question to be determined is the inability of the party to pay an amount previously fixed, a different rule prevails. If payment in full, as fixed in the former order, is a condition precedent to the court's power to reduce the payment, and the party becomes absolutely unable to pay, the order would remain unalterable and regardless of defendant's inability to pay, the order could never be changed."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Marriage of Henderson · In Re the Marriage of Wiley