Grapin v. Grapin

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring divorced parents to support adult child while child in college when other parents are not so compelled would be denial of equal protection
• disapproving Nicolay v. Nicolay, 387 So.2d 500 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980), which had affirmed an alimony award to provide children's college education
• trial court may not order post-majority support simply because the child is in college and the divorced parent can afford to pay
• no legal duty to pay child support beyond majority absent finding of physical or mental deficiencies
• “a parent has no legal duty to provide post-majority support to an otherwise healthy child, absent either a finding of legal dependence or a binding contractual agreement by the parent to pay such support”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ex Parte Bayliss
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-06-09· cited 279×
• Milne v. Milne
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-22· cited 80×
• Walter v. Walter
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-02-14· cited 69×
• Overbey v. Overbey
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-06-05· cited 41×
• Loughlin v. Loughlin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-12-12· cited 40×
• Bingemann v. Bingemann
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-09-13· cited 33×
• McLean v. McLean
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-03-10· cited 24×
• McLeod v. Starnes
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2012-03-07· cited 24×
• Towery v. Towery
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1985-03-04· cited 22×
• Rey v. Rey
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-04-17· cited 21×
• Ex Parte Tabor
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2002-06-07· cited 21×
• French v. French
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-07-05· cited 17×
• In Re the Marriage of Plummer
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-04-06· cited 17×
• Madson v. Madson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-03-16· cited 16×
• Arce v. Arce
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-07-17· cited 12×
• Miller v. Miller
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2009-01-14· cited 12×
• Riera v. Riera
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-04-25· cited 11×
• Evans v. Evans
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-26· cited 10×
• Carter v. Carter
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-05· cited 9×
• Zolonz v. Zolonz
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-08-16· cited 9×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Finn v. Finn
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-03-26· cited 92×
• Dwyer v. Dwyer
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-02-20· cited 20×
• Nicolay v. Nicolay
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-08-27· cited 17×
• Krogen v. Krogen
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-10-21· cited 16×
• Kowalski v. Kowalski
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-06-20· cited 13×
• Thomas v. Thomas
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-02-16· cited 9×
• Owens v. Owens
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-06-23· cited 5×
• Jones v. Jones
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-11-17· cited 5×
• Grapin v. Grapin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-04-19· cited 1×

Other cases named Grapin v. Grapin

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Grapin v. Grapin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-04-19· cited 1×