Bockman v. Bockman’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “West Helena with the understanding that after he established, himself, appellee and his son would come to him, it constituted a separation as of date May 30,1937, by mutual consent or voluntary act, and since they had not actually lived together for more than three years before he filed his cross-complaint, he was entitled to a divorce under § 7 of the act. This would be true if they separated as husband and wife”

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