Milot v. Milot’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2016
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Sanchione v. Sanchione · Grinold v. Grinold · Raymond v. Raymond
Most-quoted passages
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“[e]ven though an unallocated order incorporates alimony and child support without delineating specific amounts for each component, the unallocated order, along with other financial orders, necessarily includes a portion attributable to child support in an amount sufficient to satisfy the guidelines. Because the child support portion of an otherwise nonmodifiable award can be modified upon a change in custody ... but the alimony portion cannot, a trial court must determine what part of the original decree constituted modifiable child support and what part constituted nonmodifiable alimony. Given that [t]he original decree [of dissolution] ... is an adjudication by the trial court as to what is right and proper at the time it is entered ... the trial court must first determine what portion of the unallocated order represented the child support component at the time of the dissolution. Additionally, because questions involving modification of alimony and support depend ... on conditions as they exist at the time of the hearing ... it is necessary to evaluate the parties' present circumstances in light of the passage of time since the trial court's original calculation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gabriel v. Gabriel
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