Stubbs v. Puls’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. ““In the present case, the only fact upon which the doctrine of laches could be based consists of the lapse of five years, from March 1977 to July 1982, without any effort by [the former wife] through the court to collect the debt from [the former husband]. That, without more, is inadequate to bar the debt because of laches. We do not find any circumstances which would render it inequitable to enforce the divorce judgment. The record does not disclose that the delay caused any loss of evidence whereby the enforcement of the judgment would be conjectural thereby making justice difficult to administer as laches was defined in the Williamson case, supra. Both Morgan and Soling-er, supra, disallow any laches prohibition against the attempt to collect the $5,000 debt. The same reasoning, logic and legal principles of those cases would be applicable to the present litigation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 38 So. 3d 731 - Mills v. Dailey