Talbert v. Talbert’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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1. “The chancellor relied upon Mr. Talbert's raising his voice to Mrs. Talbert, belittling her, and a few acts of violence very early in the twenty-seven-year marriage. The record indicates that Mr. Talbert exhibited insensitive and somewhat boorish, obnoxious, and selfish behavior throughout the period of the marriage, but again, the fact that one spouse eventually grows weary of the other's established behavior pattern does not give rise to the requisite standard for habitual cruel and inhuman treatment.... The fact that Mr. Talbert may be insensitive does not amount to proof of habitual cruel and inhuman treatment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morris v. Morris · 43 So. 3d 465 - Jones v. Jones

2. “[l]aw does not require that ground for divorce, such as adultery, arise before separation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 832 So. 2d 492 - Davis v. Davis · 796 So. 2d 1044 - Curtis v. Curtis

3. “habitual cruel and inhuman treatment [can] be established only by a continuing course of conduct on the part of the offending spouse which [is] so unkind, unfeeling or brutal as to endanger or put one in reasonable apprehension of danger to life, limb or health, and further, that such course of conduct must be habitual, that is, done so often, or continued so long that it may be reasonably said [to be] a permanent condition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 11 So. 3d 172 - Atkinson v. Atkinson