Adams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 1946
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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““Plaintiff complains because the decree, although awarding her custody of the minor son, permits defendant to have the custody on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and for a month in the summer. The record does not indicate that the provision is unfair and, if it does not work well, the court may change it on application and showing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kane v. Kane
How this case has been treated — in progress
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