Greene v. Greene

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding trial court’s finding that father’s violation of settlement agreement incorporated into divorce decree was not willful and emphasizing that “trial courts have broad discretion in ruling on a motion for contempt”
• “The essence of civil contempt is wilful disobedience of a prior court order, and it is for the trial court to determine the credibility of the witnesses in ruling thereon”
• no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s failure to find the husband in wilful contempt where the court’s “thorough” order showed that the court “considered the Husband’s deplorable conduct[,]” but nevertheless found that he did not intend to wilfully violate the settlement agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Horn v. Shepherd
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-10-15· cited 30×
• Rocker v. First Bank of Dalton.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-27· cited 5×
• John F. Woodham v. Atlanta Development Authority
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 3×
• Mary Julia Sullivan v. John Anthony Harper
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-25
• Andrew Merle Vanvlerah v. Katelynn Vanvlerah
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-06-02
• Keith Lee Stewart v. Bridgette Stewart
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-09-20

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-07-06· cited 40×
• Kirkendall v. Decker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-05-10· cited 25×
• Frazier v. Frazier
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-06-26· cited 25×
• Killingsworth v. Killingsworth
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-11-23· cited 24×
• Saravia v. Mendoza
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-03-31· cited 23×
• Roquemore v. Burgess
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 23×
• Pate v. Pate
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-05-17· cited 21×
• Page v. Baylard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-05· cited 12×
• Hughes v. Browne
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-05-18· cited 8×
• Applebaum v. Hames
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-09-14· cited 5×
• Richardson v. Levitt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-09-16· cited 3×