Plancher v. Plancher’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 1981
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bertles v. . Nunan · Stelz v. . Shreck · In Re the Transfer Tax Upon the Estate of Klatzl · Matter of New York, New Haven and Hartford R.R. Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“When a divorce occurs, the marital relation is altered, and the rights of the severed parties in the property are altered as well, so that the parties become tenants in common. This is not because of any retroactive effect of the decree of divorce on the original grant to the spouses, but because the creation of the tenancy by the entirety was dependent on their marriage and the marriage was a continuing condition for the existence of the tenancy. . . . No matter, then, how the marital status is ended, by the very nature of the relationship between the tenants by the entirety their rights are immediately altered by that ending.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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