Hornung v. Estate of Lagerquist

How courts have described this case

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

• “the enforcement of an obligation for future support presents no greater problems than any other unliquidated claim against an estate”
• father’s obligation of support, required by divorce decree, survived his death and was enforceable
• father's obligation of support, required by divorce decree, survived his death and was enforceable
• father’s obligation to make child support payments required by divorce decree survive death and are enforceable against his estate where divorce decree required him to pay fixed monthly amount during child’s minority without exemption or qualification
• “The underlying purpose to be subserved is to provide for the support of the child during minority; and the needs of the child for support are equally as great in the case of the child whose divorced father dies as in the case where the divorced father survives.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).