Emily Jeffers v. Commons at Goodnight, LP

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a State could not deny a divorce to a married couple based on their inability to pay court costs
• holding that “the hearing required by due process is subject to waiver”
• holding court may not deny dissolution of marriage to indigents solely based on failure to pay filing fees
• ruling due process prohibits a state from denying indigents any access to the divorce courts, the only way in which a marriage could be dissolved, solely due to inability to pay
• explaining that due process requires “a meaningful opportunity to be heard”
• quoting, in part, Armstrong v. Manzo, 380 U.S. 545, 552, 85 S.Ct. 1187, 1191, 14 L.Ed.2d 62 (1965)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).