Russell A. Firestone, III and Myrna Odell Firestone v. The Cleveland Trust Company and Russell A. Firestone, Jr., Defendants

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• holding that federal question suits which are in substance domestic relations actions will not be entertained in federal court.
• stating, pre-Ankenbrandt, that the domestic relations exception applies in federal question cases
• “It is incumbent upon the district court to sift through the claims of the complaint to determine the true character of the dispute to be adjudicated”
• A federal court does not have jurisdiction to hear an action on a divorce decree when the court would have to explore the parties’ personal needs and finances.
• “Even when brought under the guise of a federal question action, a suit whose substance is domestic relations generally will not be entertained in a federal court.”
• “Even when brought under the guise of a federal question action, a suit whose subject is domestic relations generally will not be entertained in federal court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).