Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““I respectfully dissent as to the affir-mance of the trial court’s award of post-minority educational support. On October 4, 2013, our supreme court released Ex parte Christopher, 145 So.3d 60 (Ala.2013), in which our supreme court expressly overruled Ex parte Bayliss, 550 So.2d 986 (Ala.1989). In overruling Bayliss, our supreme court specifically held that, “ ‘[although [this] decision does not affect final orders of postminority educational support already entered, our overruling of Bayliss is applicable to all future cases. Further, this decision also applies to current cases where no final postminority-support order has been entered or where an appeal from a postminority-support order is still pending.’ • “Christopher, 145 So.3d at 72 (emphasis added). “... [A]t the time Christopher was decided, this case was on appeal in this court and no final judgment awarding postminority educational support had been entered. “As I explained in my special writing in Morgan v. Morgan, 183 So.3d 945, 968 (Ala.Civ.App.2014) (Thomas, J., concurring in part and concurring in the result in part), the above-quoted language in Christopher plainly states that the holding in Christopher is applicable to any case in which an appeal of a postminority-educational-support order was pending at the time the supreme court’s opinion in Christopher was released. Furthermore, our supreme court clearly stated that the holding in Christopher applied ‘to current cases where no final postminority-support ord”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Jones v. Jones