Swate v. Hartwell

How courts have described this case

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

• “Circumstances of the parties subsequent to the entry of the judgment for divorce is [sic] irrelevant to that inquiry”
• “Whether a particular obligation constitutes ... support ... is determined by examining the nature of the debt at the time it was created.” (citations and internal quotation marks deleted)
• focus is on circumstances as they existed at obligation’s creation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).