Smith v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that to require a life insurance policy, a trial court must make findings as to the availability and cost of insurance, the obligor’s ability to pay, and the special circumstances that warrant the policy
• stating that the final judgment “must specify whether the insurance is security for unpaid support obligations . . . or whether all the insurance proceeds are to be distributed to the beneficiaries upon the spouse’s death to minimize economic harm to the family”
• reversing child support award where \neither the final judgment nor the record . . . discloses with any meaningful specificity the manner in which the trial court calculated the husband's child support obligation\
• reversing child support award where \neither the final judgment nor the record . . . discloses with any meaningful specificity the manner in which the trial court calculated the husband's child support obligation\
• remanding a child support award for further findings because neither the final judgment nor the record on appeal disclosed with any meaningful specificity the manner in which the trial court calculated the husband’s child support obligation
• “To require such security, ... the trial court must make findings as to the availability and cost of insurance, the obligor’s ability to pay, and the special circumstances that warrant such security.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Massam v. Massam
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-23· cited 10×
• Foster v. Foster
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-07-08· cited 10×
• MacKoul v. MacKoul
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-04-20· cited 9×
• MICHAEL LENNON v. SIMONE LENNON
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-02-01· cited 9×
• Rashid v. Rashid
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-05-21· cited 7×
• Rumler v. Rumler
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-06-28· cited 5×
• Gazaleh v. Reeves
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-10-25· cited 2×
• Jones v. Jones
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-02-26· cited 1×
• Elbaum v. Elbaum
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-09· cited 1×
• Crosson v. Crosson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-06-18· cited 1×
• MICHAEL LENNON v. SIMONE LENNON
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-10-17
• LISA KIM KARKHOFF v. THOMAS ANTHONY ROBILOTTA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2020-12-09
• Stephens v. Stephens
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-06-18
• Sweet v. Sweet
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-10-08

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Plichta v. Plichta
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-04-29· cited 40×
• Kelly v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-07-03· cited 34×
• McDonald v. McDonald
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-03-08· cited 25×
• Sokol v. Sokol
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-10-26· cited 24×
• Perrin v. Perrin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-09-07· cited 23×
• Alpha v. Alpha
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-11-05· cited 19×
• Reddick v. Reddick
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-03-26· cited 18×
• Burnham v. Burnham
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-09-17· cited 15×
• Zangari v. Cunningham
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-19· cited 15×
• Richardson v. Richardson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-04-01· cited 14×
• Cooper v. Cooper
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-06-16· cited 14×
• Schomburg v. Schomburg
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-05-07· cited 6×
• Keith v. Keith
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-12-30· cited 2×
• Stearns v. Smith
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-05-03· cited 1×