Short v. Short

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that parties may agree on the amount of child support and, provided the amount is sufficient to support the child, their agreement will be enforced
• finding that language in the parties’ divorce agreement stipulating that father should never pay less than $3,000 per month in child support was modifiable upon showing that a material change in circumstances had occurred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Matthew Burnham v. Dana Burnham
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2015-11-12· cited 29×
• Thomas M. Dennis v. Shelia F. Dennis
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2017-08-03· cited 19×
• Gary Mosher v. Lori Mosher
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-05-24· cited 6×
• John R. Bell v. Lori M. Bell
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2016-12-06· cited 4×
• Elizabeth Ann Olson (Sisco) Pumroy v. Michael Todd Sisco and Mississippi Department of Human Services;
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2020-03-17
• Robert Stuart Cole v. Carrie Ann Fish
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2025-08-26

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tedford v. Dempsey
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1983-09-14· cited 168×
• Cummings v. Benderman
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-09-12· cited 112×
• Biglane v. Under the Hill Corp.
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-02-08· cited 106×
• Bell v. Bell
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-12· cited 88×
• McEachern v. McEachern
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1992-08-12· cited 88×
• Steiner v. Steiner
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2001-06-28· cited 71×
• Tingle v. Tingle
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 53×
• Wing v. Wing
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-09-20· cited 47×
• Bruce v. Bruce
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-09-05· cited 25×
• Morris v. Stacy
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1994-08-11· cited 17×
• Stigler v. Stigler
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2009-10-13· cited 8×
• Pipkin v. Dolan
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2001-06-19· cited 6×
• Short v. Short
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-01-29· cited 2×