964 So. 2d 185 - Meeks v. Meeks’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 2016
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 523
Relies on Thompson v. Thompson · Gazil v. Gazil · 631 So. 2d 327 - Fortner v. Fortner · McNierney v. McNierney (In Re McNierney) · Keidaish v. Smith
Most-quoted passages
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“The problem with the trial court's judgment is that it reached an issue of federal law that is not yet ripe for consideration. A state trial court is free to place language in a judgment to memorialize factual determinations or legal rulings on questions of state law that may later assist the bankruptcy court in deciding, as a matter of federal law, the dischargeability of obligations created by the judgment. However, the law does not allow a state court to decide the federal issue of discharge prior to the filing of any bankruptcy proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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