Lightel v. Myers

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a trial court must determine that an adult child is not capable of earning an income sufficient to provide for his or her reasonable living expenses before it can award postminority child support on the basis of a disability
• “SSI benefits are based on need; they reflect the amount of additional income needed by a disabled person to maintain himself at the federal minimum income level after all available income and resources are considered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Burns v. Edwards
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2004-02-17· cited 35×
• Metz v. Metz
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-12-09· cited 24×
• Martin v. Martin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-10-19· cited 12×
• Taylor v. Taylor
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2008-03-14· cited 10×
• McCartney v. McCartney
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2007-07-27· cited 7×
• Kean v. Kean
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2015-07-24· cited 7×
• Abbett v. Treadwell
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2000-12-01· cited 5×
• Adams v. Adams
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2012-04-20· cited 5×
• In Re Lister
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2011-05-12· cited 4×
• W.R. v. C.R.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2011-03-25· cited 4×
• Wojtala v. Wojtala
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2017-06-23· cited 2×
• Pamela Kay Humphries v. Robert Brian Buchanan
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2024-05-07
• Alan W. Dillon v. Heather Gilotti-Dillon
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2026-03-20

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ex Parte Bayliss
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-06-09· cited 279×
• Ex Parte Brewington
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-12-16· cited 88×
• Binns v. Maddox
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1976-02-18· cited 65×
• Thomas v. Norman
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2000-03-31· cited 25×
• In Re Marriage of Benson
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1992-12-29· cited 21×
• Ex Parte Cohen
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1999-12-22· cited 18×
• Self v. Self
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1996-10-18· cited 16×
• Martin v. Martin
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1993-03-12· cited 15×
• In Re the Marriage of Emerson
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1993-04-23· cited 13×
• DeMo v. DeMo
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1996-05-31· cited 13×
• Knight v. Knight
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1999-06-04· cited 4×