Lawrence v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1990
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Firemen's Ins. Co. of Newark, New Jersey v. Burch · Turner v. Turner · Whitney Hardware Co. v. McMahan · Graham v. Franco · Impson v. Structural Metals, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“Sec. 5.61. Rules of Marital Property Liability (a) A spouse’s separate property is not subject to liabilities of the other spouse unless both spouses are liable by other rules of law. (b) Unless both spouses are liable by other rules of law, the community property subject to a spouse’s sole management, control, and disposition is not subject to: * * * * * * * (2)any nontortious liabilities that the other spouse incurs during marriage. sfs * * * * * (d) All the community property is subject to tortious liability of either spouse incurred during marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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