Bell v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Tomal · State v. Hairston · Gossett v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Washington · 133 Wash. 2d 954 - Gossett v. Farmers Insurance · 95 Wash. App. 592 - In Re the Marriage of Mattson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court may deviate from the standard calculation when either or both of the parents before the court have children from other relationships to whom the parent owes a duty of support. (i) The child support schedule shall be applied to the mother, father, and children of the family before the court to determine the presumptive amount of support. (ii) Children from other relationships shall not be counted in the number of children for purposes of determining the basic support obligation and the standard calculation. (iii) When considering a deviation from the standard calculation for children from other relationships, the court may consider only other children to whom the parent owes a duty of support. The court may consider court-ordered payments of child support for children from other relationships only to the extent that the support is actually paid. (iv) When the court has determined that either or both parents have children from other relationships, deviations under this section shall be based on consideration of the total circumstances of both households. All child support obligations paid, received, and owed for all children shall be disclosed and considered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“adequate to meet a child's basic needs and to provide additional child support commensurate with the parents' income, resources, and standard of living,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Duty of support' means all support obligations, not merely payments of court-ordered child support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Choate v. Choate
How this case has been treated — in progress
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