43 N.C. App. 372 - Bethea v. Bethea’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 49 N.C. App. 463 - Britt v. Britt (1980), 209 N.J. Super. 559 - Dunne v. Dunne (1986)
32 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 Crosby v. Crosby · Stanback v. Stanback · 32 N.C. App. 154 - Montgomery v. Montgomery · Williams v. Williams · 36 N.C. App. 601 - Steele v. Steele
Most-quoted passages
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“that in each case the hearing court must first calculate the reasonable expense of raising the children involved, based upon the particular circumstances—the needs, the custom, and the financial status—of the parties. See Bethea v. Bethea, 43 N.C.App. 372 , 258 S.E.2d 796, 799 (1979) (“What constitutes necessities depends upon the facts and circumstances of the particular case. They include food, clothing, lodging, medical care and proper education. They are not limited to those things which are absolutely necessary to sustain life, but extend to articles that are reasonably necessary for the proper and suitable maintenance of the child in view of his social station in life, the customs of the social circle in which he lives or is likely to live and the fortune possessed by him and his parents.”).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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