53 Ala. App. 194 - Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2015
16 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. Keith · Frazier v. Frazier · Lovelady v. Lovelady · Easterling v. Caton · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States
Most-quoted passages
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“"Although there is a dearth of authority on this subject in Alabama, it is interesting to note that the . . . Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 71, though not in effect at the time of this lawsuit, recognizes that a court order may be made in favor of a person not a party and require court process to enforce such an order; however this rule does exclude creditors of parties to a divorce action. However, the rule does not prohibit an order for the benefit of such a creditor; it merely provides that the creditor would not have standing to enforce such a debt under the divorce decree. "An application of the rule to a case similar to the one at bar would authorize an order requiring payment of a debt to a non-party but would not provide [the non-party] the machinery for enforcement."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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