Rodgers v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
April 2011
most recently cited
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Relies on Tolley v. Tolley
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]hen any circuit court in this state renders a final decree of divorce, any estate by the entirety or survivorship in real or personal property held by the parties to the divorce shall be automatically dissolved unless the court order specifically provides otherwise, and in the division and partition of the property, the parties shall be treated as tenants in common.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re White
How this case has been treated — in progress
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