123 N.C. App. 744 - Fletcher v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co, Inc. v. Board of Commissioners of Town of Nags Head · Matter of Estate of Adamee · Wilson v. Wilson · Nucor Corp. v. General Bearing Corp. · Murphy v. Murphy
Most-quoted passages
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“For example, plaintiff never ‘moved’ back into or resumed cohabitation in the marital home, but instead maintained her separate residence at which she kept her possessions and from which she removed only clothing for work. In addition, the time period involved herein was less than a week, compared with the four and eight month time frames involved in Schultz and Adamee respectively. Further, no evidence in the record reveals the parties resumed the sharing of chores or household responsibilities, that they accompanied each other to public places so as to ‘[hold] themselves out as husband and wife,’ Adamee, 291 N.C. at 392, 230 [S.E.2d] at 546, or that they indicated to family and/or friends that their problems had been resolved or that they desired to terminate the separation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.