Holcomb v. Holcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
535 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 541 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Berk v. Matthews (1990), Kunkle v. Kunkle (1990)
535 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Cherry v. Cherry · Kaechele v. Kaechele · Berish v. Berish · Wolfe v. Wolfe
Most-quoted passages
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“(h) The relative extent of education of the parties;”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage““A vested pension plan accumulated during marriage is a marital asset and must be considered in conjunction with other factors listed under R.C. 3105.18 and other relevant factors in dividing marital assets and liabilities to ensure that the result reached is equitable.” Id. at syllabus.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a normal retirement age” when, apparently, his support obligation would be extinguished, his half of the pension funds would not be encumbered. Brief at 2 n. 1. 8 . The proposed chapter 13 plan provides payments to only one unsecured creditor, Mrs. De-holt. In the plan, Class I addresses the administrative claims of the chapter 13 trustee. Class III deals with Mrs. Debolt’s 50 percent pension interest. Class II is composed of Mrs. Debolt’s support arrearage claim. With respect to the support arrearages, Class II provides for payments of $105 per month for 36 months. 9 . Correspondence with Debtor from the Pension Trustee contains a return address in Michigan. Notwithstanding this fact, all significant contacts are with Ohio. 10 . These subparagraphs relate, inter alia, to address, percentage of benefits, number of payments and plan terms. 11 . "It is immaterial that, at the time of a divorce, ... a spouse has started receiving the benefits in the form of periodic income. The plan nonetheless constitutes marital assets, and the benefits therefrom belong to the marital estate and not to the receiving spouse exclusively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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