Knabe v. Knabe’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 state decisions

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1. ““ * * * But the question still remains, is the combined allowance alimony, or in part alimony and in part an allowance for the support of the children. That it was intended to provide for the support both of the wife and of the children is obvious, but does that fact prevent its classification as alimony. The answer is important because of the difference in the remedies available for the enforcement of an allowance for alimony and an allowance for the support of children, since the payment of alimony is a duty and not a debt, Dickey v. Dickey, supra, 154 Md. page 681, 141 A. 387 , 58 A.L. R. 634; 17 C.J. 507, while the obligation to pay an allowance for the support of children is, when required by a judicial decree only a debt, Bushman v. Bushman [ 157 Md. 166 , 145 A. 488 ], supra. So that default may be punished by imprisonment in the one case but not in the other.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Edgar v. Edgar