In Re the Marriage of Yates

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it was in the best interests of the children for one party to participate in anger management counseling
• holding that husband lacked standing to challenge division of marital property when he filed bankruptcy petition after appeal because the appellate rights became the property of the trustee
• noting that “child abuse or spousal abuse” are “but two, albeit important, factors in assessing the best interests of the child”
• noting that the “determination of a spouse’s reasonable needs is dependent on the particular facts and circumstances of the marriage”
• noting that mother’s conviction for misdemeanor child abuse was based on menacing father with a knife in front of children
• upholding an order imputing income based on the only evidence available when the party’s financial disclosures were “atrocious”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).