Pitts v. Pitts

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing and remanding for further proceedings where father’s circumstances appeared to have entitled him to an order temporarily reducing child support payments during the time reasonably necessary for him to reestablish himself
• clean hands doctrine precludes court from relieving party of support obligations when decrease in ability to pay results from party's own voluntary conduct
• “The decision whether to make a child support award retroactive to the date of filing the petition is a matter within the trial court’s discretion.”
• “The clean hands doctrine precludes a court from relieving a party of his or her support obligation, when the decrease in ability to pay resulted from the party’s voluntary acts ...”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. Jones
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-05-11· cited 25×
• Mascola v. Lusskin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-02-17· cited 15×
• Whight v. Whight
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-04-13· cited 8×
• Williams v. Williams
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-09-11· cited 7×
• Winn v. Winn
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-03-22· cited 7×
• Miller v. Miller
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-09-20· cited 6×
• STATE DEPT. OF REVENUE v. Cain
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-06-19· cited 4×
• Whetstone v. Whetstone
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-05-27· cited 4×
• Garone v. Goller
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-07-07· cited 2×
• State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Norman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-12-23· cited 2×
• State, Department of Revenue ex rel. Johnson v. Thomas
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-09-05· cited 2×
• Department of Revenue v. Skirko
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-10-10· cited 2×
• Macattee, Inc. v. Kismet Apartments, Ltd.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-11-02
• State, Department of Revenue ex rel. Ward v. Simpson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-11-26
• State, Department of Revenue v. Heirholzer
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-04-15

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Canakaris v. Canakaris
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-03-27· cited 2,288×
• Florida Patient's Compensation Fund v. Rowe
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-05-02· cited 889×
• Anderson v. Anderson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-11-24· cited 30×
• Walsh v. Walsh
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-06-09· cited 29×
• Pelton v. Pelton
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-12-16· cited 15×
• Barrs v. Barrs
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-12-03· cited 13×
• Friedman v. Friedman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-02-11· cited 13×
• Thomas v. Thomas
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-10-21· cited 13×
• Touchstone v. Touchstone
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-05-13· cited 12×
• McConnell v. McConnell
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-10-31· cited 11×
• Fabre v. Levine
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-05-07· cited 11×
• Pfeifer v. Pfeifer
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-04-21· cited 9×
• Martin v. Martin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-03-30· cited 6×
• Conklin v. Conklin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-11-15· cited 5×
• Manning v. Manning
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-06-23· cited 5×
• Martinez v. Garcia
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-03-12· cited 5×
• Steele v. Steele
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-03-31· cited 4×
• Davis v. Davis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-07-03· cited 4×
• Mulford v. Sullivan
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-05-09· cited 4×
• Carlton v. Carlton
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-05-13· cited 4×