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Supreme Court· 6/7/1948

Estin v. Estin

Citations

  • 334 U.S. 541
  • 68 S. Ct. 1213
  • 92 L. Ed. 2d 1561
  • 1948 U.S. LEXIS 2084
  • 92 L. Ed. 1561
  • 1 A.L.R. 2d 1412

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the jurisdiction where one of the parties to a marriage is domiciled can dissolve the marriage without personal service but that it cannot render a personal decree granting or denying alimony
  • holding that the court in a jurisdiction where one of the parties to a marriage is domiciled can dissolve the marriage without personal service, but cannot render a personal decree granting or denying alimony
  • noting that the Full Faith and Credit Clause “substituted a command for the earlier principles of comity and thus basically altered the status of the States as independent sovereigns”
  • adopting doctrine of divisible divorce as means of accommodating separate interests of each state to matters of “dominant concern”
  • the Full Faith and Credit Clause \substituted a command for the earlier principles of comity and thus basically altered the status of the States as independent sovereigns\
  • the Full Faith and Credit Clause \substituted a command for the earlier principles of comity and thus basically altered the status of the States as independent sovereigns\

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Judges: Douglas, Frankfurter, Jackson, Reed

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