Legal Opinion

Mears v. Mears

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 19, 1973No. 55196PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MASON, Justice.

Defendant-Robert and plaintiff-Carla Mears were divorced July 28, 1965. The divorce decree was modified July 8, 1968, reducing the child support payments payable to plaintiff. May 24, 1971, plaintiff filed an application asking that those payments be increased. She now appeals from the court’s order dismissing her application.

The original decree awarded custody of the two minor children of the parties, Robert Brett Mears, born in July 1959, and Kenton Bradley Mears, born in October 1960, to plaintiff and required defendant to pay $100 per week for the first 26 weeks after the…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. In Re the Marriage of WilliamsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1972
  2. Dworak v. DworakSupreme Court of Iowa · 1972
  3. In Re the Marriage of CarneySupreme Court of Iowa · 1973
  4. Keyser v. KeyserSupreme Court of Iowa · 1922
  5. Spaulding v. SpauldingSupreme Court of Iowa · 1973

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3Cited by47 opinions

  1. Tedford v. DempseyMississippi Supreme Court · 1983
  2. In Re the Marriage of VetternackSupreme Court of Iowa · 1983
  3. Curley v. CurleyAlaska Supreme Court · 1979
  4. In Re the Marriage of BergfeldSupreme Court of Iowa · 1991
  5. In RE the Marriage of Kenneth R. Michael and Melissa J. Michael Upon the Petition of Kenneth R. MichaelSupreme Court of Iowa · 2013

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