Stevenson v. Stevenson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding an award of attorney fees will not be overturned absent an abuse of discretion
• stating that the trial court’s award of attorney’s fees will not be overturned unless it is controlled by an error of law or is without evidentiary support
• holding the decision whether to award attorney fees is within the sound discretion of the family court, the exercise of which will not be overturned absent a showing of abuse.
• stating the family court has the discretion to decide whether or not to grant a party's request for attorney's fees
• reimbursable expenses include the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in obtaining evidence of spouse’s infidelity
• although the court properly denied alimony under the circumstances existing at the time of decree, husband’s pre-existing disability entitled him to reservation of alimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Patel v. Patel
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2004-05-24· cited 145×
• Donahue v. Donahue
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1989-09-25· cited 100×
• Bowers v. Bowers
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2002-02-25· cited 80×
• Shirley v. Shirley
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2000-07-31· cited 63×
• Bakala v. Bakala
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-01-27· cited 59×
• Davis v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2006-12-21· cited 49×
• Lanier v. Lanier
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-03-21· cited 38×
• Peterson v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-08-22· cited 37×
• Nasser-Moghaddassi v. Moghaddassi
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-01-31· cited 37×
• Miles v. Miles
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2003-08-22· cited 30×
• Arnal v. Arnal
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-02-07· cited 29×
• Lacke v. Lacke
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-01-10· cited 28×
• Ellerbe v. Ellerbe
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1996-07-15· cited 25×
• Reiss v. Reiss
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2011-02-23· cited 25×
• Nicholson v. Nicholson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2008-06-06· cited 22×
• Haselden v. Haselden
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-08-06· cited 22×
• Hough v. Hough
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1994-01-17· cited 20×
• Henggeler v. Hanson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1998-12-14· cited 17×
• Craig v. Craig
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-03-22· cited 16×
• Penny v. Green
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-03-08· cited 16×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lide v. Lide
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1981-10-26· cited 67×
• Mitchell v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1984-08-27· cited 54×
• Doe v. Doe
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-09-10· cited 23×
• Herring v. Herring
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1985-10-14· cited 16×
• Clardy v. Clardy
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1976-03-02· cited 14×
• Tucker v. Tucker
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1984-06-22· cited 13×
• Skipper v. Skipper
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1986-11-17· cited 11×