Jones v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a decreasing rehabilitative alimony award was inappropriate after a thirty-year marriage for a woman in her midfifties who lacked marketable job skills
• holding that a shortened, “rehabilitative” award “was inequitable” where the wife was “in her mid-50’s, possesse[d] few marketable job skills, and ha[d] little hope of retraining”
• explaining that “the trial court may make such orders concerning property distribution and alimony as are equitable”
• explaining requirement that trial court set values for various items of property included in the distribution
• “financial conditions and needs” of the recipient spouse “must be considered in fixing a reasonable alimony award”
• \financial conditions and needs\ of the recipient spouse \must be considered in fixing a reasonable alimony award\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

81 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gardner v. Gardner
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-04· cited 70×
• Stonehocker v. Stonehocker
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2008-01-10· cited 62×
• Noble v. Noble
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-08-15· cited 58×
• Paffel v. Paffel
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-12-08· cited 51×
• Newmeyer v. Newmeyer
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-11-13· cited 51×
• Davis v. Davis
  Utah Supreme Court· 1988-01-21· cited 49×
• Bell v. Bell
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-04-23· cited 47×
• Howell v. Howell
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1991-02-28· cited 42×
• Moon v. Moon
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1999-01-22· cited 41×
• Rasband v. Rasband
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-04-18· cited 39×
• Olson v. Olson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-08-02· cited 36×
• Rehn v. Rehn
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1999-02-19· cited 36×
• Naranjo v. Naranjo
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-03-22· cited 35×
• Bakanowski v. Bakanowski
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2003-10-23· cited 34×
• Taft v. Taft
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2016-06-30· cited 34×
• Fullmer v. Fullmer
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1988-09-16· cited 32×
• Petersen v. Petersen
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1987-05-18· cited 30×
• Childs v. Childs
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1998-10-01· cited 30×
• Barrani v. Barrani
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2014-08-28· cited 30×
• Shioji v. Shioji
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-11-27· cited 29×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• English v. English
  Utah Supreme Court· 1977-06-02· cited 73×
• Fletcher v. Fletcher
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-07-18· cited 45×
• Higley v. Higley
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-12-19· cited 27×
• Chandler v. West
  Utah Supreme Court· 1980-04-11· cited 22×
• Gramme v. Gramme
  Utah Supreme Court· 1978-11-14· cited 19×
• Pearson v. Pearson
  Utah Supreme Court· 1977-03-18· cited 17×
• In Re the Marriage of Martin
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1979-04-10· cited 11×
• Christiansen v. Christiansen
  Utah Supreme Court· 1983-06-23· cited 8×
• Dority v. Dority
  Utah Supreme Court· 1982-03-24· cited 8×