Schmittinger v. Schmittinger’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2013
1 district · 12 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 King v. Kitchen Magic, Inc. · 3 Pa. Commw. 64 - Amidon v. Amidon · Bullock v. Young · Butler v. Butler · Sheridan v. Sheridan
Most-quoted passages
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“(2) Husband shall hereafter pay to Wife the sum of $1100.00 per month on the fifteenth day of each month during the minority of the parties’ children. $600.00 per month shall be for the support of the parties’ three children ($200 X 3 = $600.00) and $500.00 per month shall be for the support of the Wife. During the minority of the parties’ children, Wife shall maintain and support them, it being the intent of this Agreement that during the period of such minorities, the aforesaid payments shall be for the maintenance and support of said children, as well as Wife. In addition to said payments, Husband shall pay all the expenses of educating said children for so long as they or any of them shall remain in school or college, and shall pay all their extraordinary medical, surgical, hospital and dental expenses. After said children have reached their majority, Husband shall continue to pay to Wife $1100.00 per month for her personal support and maintenance unless and until she shall remarry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Tjhere is no ambiguity. A contract is ambiguous only if there can be no reasonable and consistent interpretation of the words used derived from the face of the contract. This contract specifically states that the husband must pay $1100.00 per month (later $1200.00) during the minority of all the children, and the payments must continue beyond that time unless the wife remarries after all of the children reach majority. The sole exception to the requirement that the husband pay the full sum for life of the wife is exclusive; only when all three children reach majority and the wife remarries would the husband’s support obligation be affected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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