39 Md. App. 630 - Becker v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1990
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 352 So. 2d 1013 - Halcomb v. Halcomb · Miller v. Miller · Schrader v. Schrader · 48 Wash. 2d 373 - Ditmar v. Ditmar · Borchert v. Borchert
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reason for considering a single amount to be paid periodically for the support of more than one child as not subject to an automatic pro rata reduction is two-fold. First, a child support order is not based solely on the needs of the minor children but takes into account what the parent can afford to pay. [citation omitted.] Consequently, a child support order may not accurately reflect what the children actually require but only what the parent can reasonably be expected to pay. To allow an automatic reduction of an undivided order would be to ignore the realities of such a situation. Second, to regard an undivided child support order as equally divisible among the children is to ignore the fact that the requirements of the individual children may vary widely, depending on the circumstances. ... [citations omitted.] [ 39 Md. App. at 633-34 ],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““... [the] appellant’s obligation to pay child support as provided for in the 1971 divorce decree was not automatically affected by the elder child’s having attained his majority. While the elder child’s having attained his majority may have been grounds, upon proper application by appellant for an order from the circuit court modifying the 1971 decree, appellant made no such application.” 39 Md. App. at 634 , 387 A. 2d at 320 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Katz v. Katz“In the absence of an agreement providing otherwise, the allowance for support of a child is ordinarily limited to his or her minority. However, where one monthly sum is awarded for support of several minor children during their minority, it will be considered as providing monthly payments of such sums until the youngest child has attained his majority. [ 39 Md. App. at 632 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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