Small v. McMaster

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing “[o]ccasional introductions as husband and wife are not sufficient to establish the element of holding out” and evidence must be consistent enough to create reputation of being married within their community
• holding evidence was sufficient to support the living-together-as-spouses element where one party conceded that the couple had lived together “during the relevant time” and the court had already determined that the evidence was sufficient to show an agreement to be married
• holding evidence was sufficient to support the living-together-as- spouses element where one party conceded that the couple had lived together “during the relevant time” and the court had already determined that the evidence was sufficient to show an agreement to be married
• “Murriah admitted that she has no documents in which she referred to Jack as her husband.”
• evidence factually sufficient to support an agreement to be married, where couple exchanged rings, had a private ceremony, and witnesses testified the couple agreed to be married, despite husband’s conflicting evidence
• “Murriah did not . . . establish any joint bank accounts with Jack.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).