Jackson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““We note that he claims to have left Missouri and moved to North Carolina ‘so that he could start a new life’. To that end he left lucrative employment here— over $40,000 in the two years before leaving for North Carolina. In Morovitz v. Morovitz, 633 S.W.2d 211 (Mo.1982), where husband as here had voluntarily reduced his earnings we ruled: ‘The proper yardstick to measure the adequacy of marital allowances is the husband’s capacity to pay. Both his present and past earnings are evidence of that capacity.’ Foster v. Foster, 537 SW2d 833 [3, 4] (Mo.App.1976) held a court could ‘impute an income to a husband according to what he could have earned by use of his best efforts to gain employment suitable to his capabilities.’ ””

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