Witherspoon v. Witherspoon’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““As was said in Hamby v. Northcut, 25 Tenn.App. 11 , 149 S.W.2d 484 , in case of a divorce a vinculo procured at the suit of the wife the court may vest in the wife absolutely a specific portion of the real or personal estate of the husband. This well known rule has been followed in cases too numerous to mention. “In the more recent case of Grant v. Grant, 39 Tenn.App. 539 , 286 S.W.2d 349 , it was pointed out that a trial court is vested with wide discretion in matters of divorce, alimony, attorneys fee, and custody and support of minor children, and that reviewing courts will not interfere except on a showing of abuse of discretion. Again it is pointed out in Grant v. Grant, supra, that the statute, as embraced in Section 36-825, T.C.A., is not mandatory but leaves it within the discretion of the trial judge as to the vesting and divesting of title.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hensley v. Hensley

2. “to allow the court more latitude in dividing the property between husband and wife and in divesting and reinvesting title.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunn v. Commissioner