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· 7/18/1985

Purser v. Rahm

Citations

  • 702 P.2d 1196
  • 104 Wash. 2d 159

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that “the equitable treatment of married people under community property law does no ‘major damage’ to the ‘clear and substantial’ objectives of the Medicaid law”
  • “Nothing in the Medicaid statute or regulations establishes federal criteria for determining ownership of income.”
  • requiring state Medicaid administrator to apply community-property law in determining eligibility for benefits instead of name-on-the-check rule
  • \The equitable treatment of married people under community property law does no 'major damage' to the 'clear and substantial' objectives of the Medicaid law.\
  • the equities may require maintenance of the status quo to preserve the fruits of a successful appeal
  • “The equitable treatment of married people under community property law does no ‘major damage’ to the ‘clear and substantial’ objectives of the Medicaid law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Dore, Dolliver, Utter, Brachtenbach, Pearson, Andersen, Callow, Goodloe, Durham

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