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EstIn Vs. Estin

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 07, 1948

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  10. U.S. 541 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Estin v. Estin
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  11. U.S. 541 (1948) Estin v. Estin
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  12. App.Div. 829, 66 N.Y.S.2d 421, and then by the Court of Appeals. 296 N.Y. 308, 73 N.E.2d 113. We held in Williams v. North
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  13. to prima facie weight, it is not conclusive in a sister State, but might be relitigated there. And see Esenwein v. Pennsylvania
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  14. only so long as the relation of husband and wife exists, and that in New York, as in some other states, see Esenwein v. Pennsylvania
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  15. one side the case where the wife was personally served or where she appears in the divorce proceedings. Cf. Yarborough v. Yarborough
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  16. Davis v. Davis
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  17. of both parties in all the other States of the Union, as well as in Nevada. Page 334 U. S. 545 Williams v. North
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  18. other legal incidence of the marriage was necessarily affected. Although the point was not adjudicated in Barber v. Barber
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  19. State, because its enforcement would contravene the latter's policy, have been few and far between. See Williams v. North
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  20. earlier principles of comity, and thus basically altered the status of the States as independent sovereigns. Williams v. North
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  21. are exacting, if not inexorable ( Sherrer v. Sherrer
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  22. the legitimacy of the offspring of marriage. It is the basis of criminal laws, as the bigamy prosecution in Williams v. North
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  23. the matrimonial domicile to change the marital status of the parties by an ex parte divorce proceeding, Thompson v. Thompson
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  24. however, apparently follows the rule that dissolution of the marriage puts and end to a support order. See Herrick v. Herrick
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  25. judgment when she was not personally served or did not appear in the proceeding. Page 334 U. S. 548 Bassett v. Bassett
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  26. from control or power over the persons whose relationships are the source of the rights and obligations. Cf. Curry v. McCanless
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  27. some control over the debt which he owes. It can, for example, levy a tax on its transfer by will ( Blackstone v. Miller
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  28. S. 174 , 316 U. S. 176 -177) appropriate it through garnishment or attachment ( Chicago, R.I. & P. R. Co. v. Sturm
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  29. Harris v. Balk
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  30. U. S. 215 ), collect it and administer it for the benefit of creditors. Clark v. Williard
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  31. Fischer v. American
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  32. personally served or appears in the proceeding. The existence of any such power has been repeatedly denied. Pennoyer v. Neff
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  33. is not entitled to the full faith and credit which the Constitution and statute of the United States demand. Hansberry v. Lee
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  34. Williams v. North
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  35. question whether, in any event, that judgment would be entitled to full faith and credit in Nevada. See Sistare v. Sistare
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  36. See Bingham, In the Matter of Haddock v. Haddock
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  37. Holt, The Bones of Haddock v. Haddock
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  38. Cook, Is Haddock v. Haddock
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  39. As respects statutes, see the discussion in Williams v. North
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  40. The case is unlike Thompson v. Thompson
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  41. Miller v. Miller
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  42. survives a decree of divorce within the scope of enforceability of the rule in Williams Page 334 U. S. 550 v. North
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  43. a federal right, given by the Full Faith and Credit Clause, under the guise of a determination of State law. Cf. Davis v. Wechsler
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  44. maintenance decree in Pennsylvania -- which treats such decrees as terminated by any valid divorce, see Esenwein v. Commonwealth
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  45. dispel my doubts. Neither do the cases cited in the Court of Appeals' opinion, which, with the exception of Wagster v. Wagster
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  46. divorce to dissolve its prior separate maintenance decree, but it may not, consistently with Williams v. North
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  47. Minnesota v. National
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  48. decision with the command that it be given full faith and credit. For reasons which I stated in dissenting in Williams v. North
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court Estin v. Estin
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  50. Esenwein v. Pennsylvania
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