Miller v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. “"In the case of Nelson v. Nelson, 146 Ark. 362 , 225 S.W. 619, 620 , this court said: `It follows also that the allowance of attorney's fees must be reversed. At Section 49 of the article on Alimony in 1 R.C.L., at page 902, the law is announced as follows: `As a general rule, an action for alimony cannot be brought after the rendition of a judgment for divorce, even though the decree is silent on the matter; for, as the question of alimony might, and should, have been litigated therein, such decree operates as res judicata as to the question of alimony.' See, also, 7 R.C.L., p. 792. `The original decree undertakes to settle, and did adjudicate, the marital rights of the parties. The divorce granted was an absolute one, and terminates the husband's liability for his wife's obligations. He would thereafter be no more liable for her lawyer's fees than he would be for any other contractual obligation which she had incurred.' "In American and English Annotated Cases, vol. 40 (Ann.Cas.1916B), page 875, there is an extensive note or annotation on `Doctrine of Res Judicata as Applicable to Divorce Proceedings'; and on page 898 of that annotation, the rule is stated: `All questions concerning alimony which are or ought to be determined in a divorce proceeding are res judicata in a subsequent proceeding in the same jurisdiction.' "See also 17 Am.Juris. 442, 482, 484. "There was no language in the divorce decree of September 25, 1944, reserving the question of alimony for subsequent di”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grady v. Grady · Brown v. Brown