9 Utah 2d 237 - Wallis v. Wallis’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
November 1976
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goldman v. Goldman · 8 Utah 2d 191 - Berry v. Moench · Schmelzel v. Schmelzel · 2 Utah 2d 49 - Austad v. Austad · Wassung v. Wassung
Most-quoted passages
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“The [support] of the provision for alimony and support money is to provide for the current needs, and not to allow the beneficiary to sit by and permit a burdensome debt to accumulate and then use it to harass the defendant so that he cannot hold a job or live a respectable existence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peterson v. Peterson
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