Fowler v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
August 2002
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Waters v. Waters · Steiner v. Steiner · Harding v. Harding · Richards v. Richards · 84 Cal. App. 2d 141 - Loeb v. Loeb
Most-quoted passages
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“The amendment leaves the judge with discretion to make an award of temporary alimony limited only by the standard that it be fair and reasonable. The same is true with respect to expenses of trial. Under R.L.H. 1955, § 324-34, we think that a wife who has sufficient means to live in her accustomed manner, and to prosecute her libel for divorce, without impairing the capital of her separate estate, is not entitled to temporary alimony or expenses of trial. [Citations omitted.] But, in our opinion, the statute does not require a wife to impair her capital, and if her income is insufficient for the maintenance of her accustomed standard of living and for the efficient prosecution of her libel, she may be awarded temporary alimony to supplement her income and may be allowed reasonable expenses of trial. Of course, due consideration must be given to the financial resources of the husband. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Farias v. Farias
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