2009 Ark. App. 208 - Evtimov v. Milanova’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2023
24 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 Taylor v. Taylor · Boyles v. Boyles · 76 Ark. App. 150 - Keathley v. Keathley · 79 Ark. App. 178 - Davis v. Davis · 82 Ark. App. 47 - Cole v. Cole
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, the purpose of rehabilitative maintenance is to allow the recipient spouse to become self-supporting; its purpose is to aid the former spouse as he or she transitions back into the workplace and self sufficiency. Rehabilitative alimony enables the receiving spouse to establish the capacity for self-support commensurate with the standard of living established during the course of the marriage, through the redevelopment of previous skills or the provision of training necessary to develop new skills. The goal of self-sufficiency must, however, be balanced against the realistic likelihood that the spouse will be able to attain a level of support comparable to the standard of living enjoyed during the marriage, especially where the spouse has not been in the work force for a long period of time. An award of rehabilitative alimony is also designed to permit former spouses to develop their own lives free from obligations to each other. Rehabilitative alimony is a “bridge-the-gap” measure to aid the recipient spouse in making the transition from married life to being single. Other purposes rehabilitative alimony is intended to serve include the following: • to give the paying spouse some predictability concerning financial obligations • to prevent possible further court appearances by permitting the court to take into consideration reasonably foreseeable changes in the recipient spouse’s circumstances • to encourage the recipient spouse to find employment or complete educa”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“discretion bounded by rules and principles of law, and not arbitrary, capricious, or unrestrained. It is not the indulgence of judicial whim, but the exercise of judicial judgment, based on facts and guided by law or the equitable decision or what is just and proper under the circumstances. It is legal discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law and is not to give effect to the will of the judge, but to that of the law.... A liberty or privilege to decide what is fair and equitable under the peculiar circumstances of the particular case, guided by the spirit and principles of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Alimony and property divisions are complementary devices that a trial [court] employs to make the dissolution of a marriage as equitable as possible.”
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.