Rutledge v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1986
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Green v. Green · Gordon v. Ary · Blank v. Blank
Most-quoted passages
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“Furthermore, the court was without authority to make any retroactive modification of the decree. Thus, the action of the court in purporting to go back to the decree entered in 1972 and to change the amount of child support from that time was completely beyond its jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. Long
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