Smith v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “increased child support necessarily has an incidental benefit for the custodial parent”
• recognizing that \increased child support necessarily has an incidental benefit for the custodial parent\
• reversing order deviating from guidelines when court failed to show that it considered factors specified in § 659 and all other relevant factors
• reversing order deviating from guidelines when court failed to show that it considered factors specified in § 659 and all other relevant factors
• rejecting argument that additional support was effectively maintenance award because “[t]here is nothing in the family court decision to suggest that the increased support was intended to be used by plaintiff and not for the support of the children”
• family court has discretion in determining child-support award outside the guidelines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Adamson v. Dodge
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-11-01· cited 25×
• Smith v. Freeman
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-12-26· cited 23×
• Harris v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-05-08· cited 20×
• Tetreault v. Coon
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1998-01-23· cited 14×
• Braun v. Greenblatt
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2007-06-15· cited 11×
• Coyle v. Coyle
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2007-03-14· cited 9×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• MATTER OF CASSANO v. Cassano
  New York Court of Appeals· 1995-05-09· cited 367×
• Mehra v. Mehra
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-11-19· cited 143×
• Nash v. Mulle
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-01-19· cited 97×
• Battersby v. Battersby
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-05-07· cited 68×
• In Re Marriage of Lee
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-06-29· cited 64×
• Voishan v. Palma
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-07-22· cited 61×
• Miller v. Schou
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-08· cited 52×
• In Re the Marriage of Van Inwegen
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1988-05-26· cited 46×
• In Re the Marriage Nimmo
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1995-03-13· cited 40×
• Bagley v. Bagley
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-11-01· cited 32×
• Preis v. Preis
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1994-02-02· cited 28×
• Branch v. Jackson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-08-12· cited 26×
• Ainsworth v. Ainsworth
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-03-16· cited 26×
• Archer v. Archer
  Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma· 1991-04-02· cited 23×
• Grimes v. Grimes
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1992-11-06· cited 21×
• Galbis v. Nadal
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1993-06-10· cited 20×
• Dunning v. Meaney
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-11-05· cited 18×
• C.D. v. N.M.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-07-30· cited 14×
• In Re the Marriage of Wackler
  Montana Supreme Court· 1993-04-13· cited 10×
• McCormick v. McCormick
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-01-08· cited 10×