Steele v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Unlike the provisions in Title 46, LRS 9:306 1 does not specify or limit the duration of the injunction prohibiting physical or sexual abuse of a “petitioning spouse.” This statute, however, clearly treats such an injunction as incidental to the filing of the separation or divorce action \Rby a petitioning spouse. Being incidental to the separation action, an injunction derived from LRS 9:306 which is ordered in a separation judgment must be held ineffective and unenforceable where it is not expressly continued or ordered in the later divorce judgment. Thornton v. Floyd, 229 La. 237 , 85 So.2d 499 (La.1956).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 839 So. 2d 1201 - Lawrence v. Lawrence