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827 P.2d 865

63 O.B.A.J. 532

Messenger v. Messenger

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided February 18, 1992

Supreme Court of Oklahoma · decided 1992-02-18

Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408

Relies on Smith v. Smith

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1992-02-18

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Bivins v. State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Memorial Hospital (1996), Akin v. Missouri Pacific Railroad (1998)

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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DOOLIN, Justice,

¶1dissenting in part.

¶2I dissent for the reasons stated in my dissent in Smith v. Smith, 652 P.2d 297, 299 (Okl.1982).

¶3I am of the opinion that modification of support alimony awards are subject to modification on a “needs basis” since remedial legislation by the U.S. Congress 1, and the Oklahoma Legislature.2

¶4. 10 U.S.C.A. § 1408.

¶5. 12 O.S.1981, § 1289(E).

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