Shires v. Shires’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “With these burdens and obligations, she does not have the right to claim the children as dependents on her tax return. In making the mortgage payments she will be paying property taxes, insurance and maintenance costs to protect the vested interest of the husband.... We do find it erroneous because when taken in its entirety, it is so unfair to the wife as to become a palpable abuse of the discretion of the trial court. It is for that reason we reverse the judgment as to child support and division of property and remand with positive suggestions for change. It is the placing of the large and heavy burden of making the mortgage payments on the wife that we perceive as the root of inequity in the judgment. That payment protects the interest of the husband as well as the wife. She must also pay the taxes, insurance and maintenance to protect the husband’s vested interest as well as her own....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brantley v. Brantley