McDowell v. McDowell

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a family court's alimony award to a husband when the factors supported the court's decision despite the marriage lasting only two and a half years
• \A single assault by one spouse upon the other spouse can constitute physical cruelty ... [if it is] life threatening or ... indicative of an intention to do seriously bodily harm or of such a degree as to raise a reasonable apprehension of great bodily harm in the future.\
• “A single assault by one spouse upon the other spouse can constitute physical cruelty ... [if it is] life threatening or ... indicative of an intention to do seriously bodily harm or of such a degree as to raise a reasonable apprehension of great bodily harm in the future.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pirri v. Pirri
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-05-22· cited 44×
• Murphy v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1995-08-07· cited 36×
• Thomson v. Thomson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2008-04-25· cited 13×
• Gorecki v. Gorecki
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2010-04-05· cited 8×
• Alicia Cohen v. Woland Cohen
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2022-08-03

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1988-08-29· cited 186×
• Donahue v. Donahue
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-09-25· cited 100×
• Atkinson v. Atkinson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1983-11-07· cited 65×
• Johnson v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1986-03-13· cited 19×
• Strickland v. Strickland
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-01-23· cited 5×