Chafin v. Chafin

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding the trial court “had jurisdiction to divorce the parties” and “erred in dismissing the divorce action in its entirety” for 8 lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the UCCJEA
• concluding Scotland, rather than Alabama, was the child’s home state
• holding the trial court had jurisdiction to divorce the parties where the husband alleged that he had been a resident of Alabama for more than six months when he filed his complaint for divorce and the wife did not challenge the fact that husband was an Alabama resident
• stating the complaining party must have been a resident of Alabama for six months before filing a complaint for divorce; the Alabama statutes do not require that a court have in personam jurisdiction over both parties to grant a divorce

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ware v. Ware
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2013-06-12· cited 16×
• In re the Marriage of Del Real
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2020-07-01

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• May v. Anderson
  Supreme Court· 1953-05-18· cited 674×
• Jimmy Day Plumbing & Heating, Inc. v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-03-09· cited 96×
• Lightell v. Lightell
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1981-02-04· cited 21×
• Coleman v. Coleman
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2003-05-09· cited 9×
• Hein v. Fuller
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2012-04-13· cited 7×
• Fuller v. Fuller
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2010-06-11· cited 4×
• Livingston v. Livingston
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2002-05-10· cited 2×