Townsend v. Townsend

How courts have described this case

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

• holding proof of permanent, unanticipated, substantial change of circumstances a prerequisite to trial court's authority to exercise discretion in modification proceeding
• finding that trial court abused its discretion by modifying husband’s alimony obligation where he “failed to establish a permanent, unanticipated, substantial change in the financial circumstances of one or both parties”
• reversing a modification of alimony because husband did not present proof of a substantial change, which “is a prerequisite to a trial court’s authority to exercise discretion to modify permanent alimony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Miller v. Miller
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-05-01· cited 14×
• Long v. Long
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-08-13· cited 9×
• McManus v. McManus
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-06-24· cited 4×
• Rogers v. Rogers
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-12-08· cited 4×
• Suarez v. Sanchez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-08-18· cited 4×
• United Capital Funding Corp. v. Technamax, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-22· cited 2×
• Hillier v. Iglesias
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-05-04· cited 1×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Withers v. Withers
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-11-19· cited 20×
• Sheffield v. Sheffield
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-03-11· cited 16×
• Brown v. Brown
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-10-26· cited 16×
• Cowie v. Cowie
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-06-29· cited 9×
• Lowry v. Lowry
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-24· cited 8×
• Townsend v. Townsend
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-02-10· cited 3×