Jones v. Thibodaux’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The law favors restitution to the wife, and looks with favor upon the efforts of the husband to secure her just and honest claim * * * against him. The fact that he is insolvent and embarrassed, that he is pursued by his creditors by harsh remedies, cannot be invoked to destroy the validity of the transaction. The wife, like any other creditor, is sustained in her vigilant efforts to secure her debts; and the husband can be excused if, finding himself in financial straits, affection for his wife, and his duty to her and to their children, impels him to secure her just claim, and to aid and assist her in all proper methods in that direction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Miller