In Re the Marriage of Abrams

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, in a long-term marriage, “the primary goal of spousal support is to provide a standard of living to both spouses that is roughly comparable to the one enjoyed during the marriage” and “the parties should be separated on as equal a footing as possible”
• The purpose of spousal maintenance support “is to allow one financially able spouse to contribute to the support of the other, depending on the financial needs and resources of each party.”
• setting out goals for spousal support awards after long-term marriages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).