Deloughrey v. Hinds

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “alimony” was composed of two separate elements: “a division of the marital assets and liabilities” and “periodic payments for sustenance and support.”
• “It is inadvisable, and in practice impossible, for any court to attempt to set down a flat rule concerning property division in a divorce.”
• court declined to adopt a flat rule for the division of property because it would impede the trial court's exercise of discretion for the varying facts and circumstances in each case
• “[A] trial court’s discretion, though broad, is not unlimited.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).