Kelley v. Kelley

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 child support agreement, which effectively eliminated one spouse's responsibility to support the child and diminished the court's power to determine support, was void
• holding that parties cannot, by agreement, “contract away their children’s rights to support nor . . .” preclude a court “from exercising its power to decree child support” (citation omitted)
• finding contract void because “the children’s rights to receive support from both parents were substantially abridged”
• \[P]arents cannot contract away their children's rights to support nor can a court be precluded by agreement from exercising its power to decree child support.\
• a court cannot be precluded by agreement between the parties from exercising its power to decree child support
• a court cannot be precluded by agreement between the parties from exercising its power to decree child support

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Joynes v. Payne
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-08-28· cited 136×
• Bruce M. Mayer v. Linda Corso-Mayer
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2014-01-14· cited 45×
• Shoup v. Shoup
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-12-27· cited 39×
• Julio Fernando Cabral v. Debbie Ann Silveira Cabral
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2013-12-10· cited 31×
• Riggins v. O'BRIEN
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2002-03-01· cited 27×
• Orlandi v. Orlandi
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-10-15· cited 23×
• Anonymous C v. Anonymous B and Albemarle County Department of Social Services
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-29· cited 21×
• Gallagher v. Gallagher
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-05-15· cited 18×
• Wilderman v. Wilderman
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-09-02· cited 17×
• Church v. Church
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-04-08· cited 16×
• Virostko v. Virostko
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-03-20· cited 13×
• Burke v. Burke
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-06-24· cited 11×
• Betty Leona (Anderson) (Ritchie) Layne v. Donald Lee Layne
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2012-10-23· cited 10×
• Ronald James Everett v. Asli Carome, f/k/a Asli Everett
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-08-11· cited 8×
• Cartwright v. Cartwright
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-10-24· cited 7×
• Riggins v. O'BRIEN
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-12-12· cited 7×
• Lehman v. Lehman
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-13· cited 6×
• Dahl v. Dahl
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2007-06-27· cited 5×
• Joynes v. Payne
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-05-08· cited 5×
• Shoup v. Shoup
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-02-27· cited 5×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rook v. Rook
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-03-06· cited 114×
• Featherstone v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-10-05· cited 65×
• Slaughter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1981-12-04· cited 44×
• Scott v. Scott
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-27· cited 30×
• Carter v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-01-20· cited 28×
• Broyhill v. Dawson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1937-06-10· cited 14×
• Kelley v. Kelley
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-21· cited 2×