Patterson v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““* * * In coming to a conclusion as to the amount of alimony, the station in life of the husband, his means as shown by the testimony, including his expenditures, and his apparent condition, should be the criterion as to the proper amount necessary to give the wife suitable support, it being remembered that such suitable support is not simply what will supply her with the bare necessaries of life, but such a sum as will keep- her in the situation ¡and condition in which her husband’s means entitle her to live.””

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