Handsaker v. Handsaker’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “When a divorce is decreed, the court may make such order in relation to the children, property, parties, and the maintenance of the parties as shall, be right. Subsequent changes may be made by it in these respects when circumstances render them expedient.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Helvering v. Fitch