Grimes v. Grimes

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that fees are “a matter of justice and equity within the discretion of the court” and it was reasonable for court to require wife to bear litigation costs associated with father’s motion to modify child support
• explaining that Court has been “unwilling to find a parent’s inaction to be a waiver of a child’s support rights”
• explaining that the child support guideline system presumes that the support award will be based on the guideline calculation absent finding of inequity
• declining to reach issue of whether decrease in father’s income was real, substantial and unanticipated change in circumstances under § 660(a), citing § 660(b
• declining to reach issue of whether decrease in father's income was real, substantial and unanticipated change in circumstances under § 660(a), citing § 660(b
• canvassing cases and holding unenforceable as a matter of public policy “parental agreements prohibiting or limiting the power of the court to modify child support in the future”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rueckert v. Rueckert
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-05-11· cited 49×
• Adamson v. Dodge
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-11-01· cited 25×
• Harris v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-05-08· cited 20×
• Clark v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-06-22· cited 14×
• Tetreault v. Coon
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-01-23· cited 14×
• C.D. v. N.M.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-07-30· cited 14×
• Smith v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1996-08-02· cited 13×
• Coyle v. Coyle
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2007-03-14· cited 9×
• Bergman v. Marker
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2007-12-21· cited 6×
• Merchant v. Merchant
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2015-05-15· cited 4×
• Taylor v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-02-08· cited 3×
• Root v. Root
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2005-08-02· cited 2×
• Cd v. Nm
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-07-30

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lang v. Lang
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-09-28· cited 40×
• Nevitt v. Nevitt
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-11-30· cited 38×
• In Re the Marriage of Miller
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1990-03-01· cited 33×
• Leonard v. Lane
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-11-07· cited 28×
• Ainsworth v. Ainsworth
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-03-16· cited 26×
• White v. White
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1982-07-30· cited 24×
• In Re Support of Burks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-09-30· cited 21×
• In Re the Marriage of Studebaker
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-03-05· cited 19×
• Lyon v. Lyon
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1983-09-28· cited 13×
• Padova v. Padova
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1962-07-16· cited 12×
• Phillips v. Phillips
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1947-11-08· cited 12×
• Isham v. Isham
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-10-20· cited 7×
• Bradley v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-03-30· cited 1×