Matles v. Matles’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2018
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gallo v. Gallo · Miller v. Miller · Jacobsen v. Jacobsen · Broaca v. Broaca · Venuti v. Venuti
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]ere, we are faced with a situation where an event certain, the attainment of majority by the child, inevitably is bound to occur. Under such circumstances, logic and reason leads us to conclude that when an order for unallocated alimony and support is entered and when that order does not contain a provision for specific reduction or reallocation upon the child's majority, there is implicit in such order the contemplation that when the child attains majority the trial court, upon motion of either party, must conduct a hearing to ascertain what part, if any, of the order is then attributable to child support and it must modify the order to reflect the same.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Inherent in an order of unallocated alimony and support is that some portion of the order is attributable to the payor's obligation to support the child. When the obligation to support the child no longer exists, it becomes appropriate for the trial court to reexamine the facts and circumstances of the parties as they exist at the time of such occurrence and to modify any such orders to reflect the changed circumstances. . . . Stated otherwise, where a court order by its very nature requires a modification to conform it to the jurisdiction of the court, that court, in making such modification, must be guided by the CT Page 1039 standard set forth in General Statutes § 46b-82 . . . . Id., 79-80, 81-82.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“". . . the fundamental question that we must answer involves the proper procedure to be followed by the parties and the court when there is extant an order of unallocated alimony and support and the youngest child attains his majority."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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