Legal Opinion · Dissent

Yarborough v. Yarborough

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 4, 1933No. 14Published

1DissentJustice Stone

I think the judgment should be affirmed.

The divorce decree of the Georgia court purported to adjudicate finally, both for the present and for the future, the right of a minor child of the marriage to support and maintenance, by directing her father to make a lump sum payment for that purpose. More than two years later, after the minor had become a domiciled resident of South Carolina, and after the sum paid had been exhausted, a court of that State, on the basis of her need as then shown, has rendered a judgment directing further payments for her support out of property of the father in South…

2Cases cited90 opinions

  1. Martin v. Hunter's LesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1816
  2. Huntington v. AttrillSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  3. Haddock v. HaddockSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
  4. Sistare v. SistareSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  5. Maynard v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1888

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