Calloway v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““By Act No. 94-213, § 1, Ala. Acts 1994, codified at § 30-3-110, the legislature created ‘a civil action to establish an order of retroactive support which may be brought against a non-supporting parent who has a duty to support as the legal parent of a child or children but has failed to provide support.’ The last sentence of § 30-3-110 states: ‘An action under this section can be brought only if support has not previously been ordered pursuant to a divorce or other action in this or any other jurisdiction.’ “Words used in a statute must be given their natural, plain, ordinary, and commonly understood meaning, and where plain language is used a court is bound to interpret that language to mean exactly what it says.’ IMED Corp. v. Systems Engineering Assocs. Corp., 602 So.2d 344, 346 (Ala.1992).””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Santiago v. Santiago · Patterson v. State ex rel. Worley