divisible divorce
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 334 U.S. 541 - Estin v. Estin · 1948Most cited · 1,052 citing opinions
The result in this situation is to make the divorce divisible to give effect to the Nevada decree insofar as it affects marital status and to make it ineffective on the issue of alimony. It accommodates the interests of both Nevada and New York in this broken marriage by restricting each State to the matters of her dominant concern.
How often courts cite the case defining “divisible divorce”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “divisible divorce” — 1,052 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.