Black v. Black

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming an award to the wife of half of future retirement payments received by the husband as part of the equitable division of marital assets—even though distribution was “in the form of monthly payments[] resembling periodic alimony”
• chancellor's decision to distribute one half of husband's retirement benefits to wife was entirely within his discretion
• chancellor's decision to distribute one half of husband’s retirement benefits to wife 7 was entirely within his discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Phillips v. Phillips
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2004-12-02· cited 41×
• McIlwain v. McIlwain
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-04-30· cited 6×
• Brame v. Brame
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-03-28· cited 3×
• Thomas Quitman Brame, Jr. v. Sherrye Polk Brame
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-12-08
• Paul Eugene Phillips v. Debra Kay Brown Phillips
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-12-04
• Janice Loden Sullivan v. James Wayne Sullivan
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2020-09-08
• Alvin Johnson, Sr. v. Anna Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2023-04-18

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ferguson v. Ferguson
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-07-07· cited 745×
• Hemsley v. Hemsley
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-07-07· cited 413×
• Bell v. Parker
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 251×
• Newsom v. Newsom
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-02-14· cited 178×
• Stevison v. Woods
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-04-11· cited 51×
• Schilling v. Schilling
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-03-07· cited 41×