Meissner v. Meissner’s Empirical Analysis
1998
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1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 404 So. 2d 1230 - Lewis v. Lewis · Royer v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. · 558 So. 2d 1368 - Razzaghe-Ashrafi v. Razzaghe-Ashrafi · 622 So. 2d 1203 - Stansell v. Stansell · 502 So. 2d 591 - Reece v. Reece
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“William and Marie Meissner were married on November 29, 1983, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Soon after the New Orleans marriage the couple moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they established their matrimonial domicile. Both parties had been previously married but had divorced their prior spouses by means of questionably valid legal proceedings in the Dominican Republic. To protect the status of their marriage to each other, they each subsequently obtained Brazilian divorces from their former spouses, then remarried in a Brazilian ceremony in 1988. In 1990 Marie left Brazil and came to the United States to attend school in New York. For one reason or another, after attending school in New York, Marie did not return to Brazil but instead moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana. [In 1991, Marie filed for divorce in Calcasieu Parish, but that action was dismissed on several exceptions filed by William.] On March 1, 1993, William filed for divorce in Brazil. On June 12, 1995, Marie signed a procuration and agreement which gave her Brazilian attorneys the power to represent her in the Brazilian divorce proceedings and to effectuate certain agreements as to matters incidental to the divorce. In August 1995 William filed another divorce action, this time in the Fourteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Calcasieu, Louisiana, where Marie lived. Marie answered the Louisiana suit and filed a reconventional demand praying for a divorce and incidental relief, including alimony and a p”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provisional remedy for the inventory of property”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provisional remedy and inventory of property.”
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