Guzman v. Guzman

How courts have described this case

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• holding court cannot use equitable power to order support when relevant statutes do not provide for it
• “A statute is to be given such an effect that no clause, sentence or word is rendered superfluous, void, contradictory or insignificant.”
• “It is a cardinal rule of construction that statutory provisions must be considered in the context of the entire statute . . . .”
• “[T]he rule against retroactive modification . . . has no application in a situation in which a minor child has become emancipated through marriage.”
• “It is a cardinal rule of construction that statutory provisions must be considered in the context of the entire statute and consideration must be given to all of the statute’s provisions to determine the legislative intent manifested by the entire act.”

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