Scott v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that consideration of only single 15 V.S.A. § 751(b) factor in distributing asset, absent broader analysis, would constitute abuse of discretion
• upholding award of spousal maintenance to wife based, in part, on income that husband was “capable” of earning and “imputed” rental income
• upholding court’s decision to award marital home to wife despite both parties’ contributions to mortgages and improvements over course of long marriage as within its “wide discretion”
• trial court's distribution of marital property will not be disturbed on appeal unless discretion was abused, withheld or exercised on untenable grounds
• trial court’s distribution of marital property will not be disturbed on appeal unless discretion was abused, withheld or exercised on untenable grounds
• permissible to consider previous wage statements and previous summer's earnings to predict earning capability in future

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• DeLeonardis v. Page
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2010-06-04· cited 32×
• Chilkott v. Chilkott
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-03-20· cited 31×
• Sumner v. Sumner
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2004-05-07· cited 24×
• Kohut v. Kohut
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1995-07-21· cited 23×
• Williams v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-06-26· cited 19×
• Justis v. Rist
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-09-18· cited 15×
• LeBlanc v. LeBlanc
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2014-06-27· cited 13×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lalumiere v. Lalumiere
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-03-18· cited 35×
• Downs v. Downs
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-04-06· cited 29×
• Boyce v. Boyce
  D.C. Circuit· 1946-01-28· cited 23×
• DeGrace v. DeGrace
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1986-12-01· cited 21×
• Naumann v. Kurz
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-08-25· cited 20×
• Colm v. Colm
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1979-10-02· cited 17×
• Lillis v. Lillis
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-07-06· cited 16×
• McCrea v. McCrea
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-07-15· cited 15×
• Burr v. Burr
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-06-26· cited 13×
• Belanger v. Belanger
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-06-26· cited 12×
• Heckman v. Heckman
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1968-07-23· cited 11×
• Ellam v. Ellam
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1975-01-10· cited 8×
• Buxton v. Buxton
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-03-20· cited 6×
• Oxford v. Oxford
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1963-12-16· cited 5×
• Ellis v. Ellis
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-07-21· cited 4×