

Family and Marital Law
Personal Injury
- Wrongful Death
- Car Accidents
- Drunk Driving
- Truck Accidents
- Traumatic Brain Injury
Estate Planning
- Wills
- Living Wills and Healthcare Power of Attorney
- Durable Powers of Attorney
- Declarations/Living Wills
- Medical
Other Practice Area
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American Family Law Cases
Marriage & its Hurdles
- Reynolds v. United States: : Looked at the legality of polygamous
relationships
- Loving v. Virginia: Overruled the interracial marriage barriers.
- Zablocki v. Redhail: Looked at the effect of child supoort debt
and the right to a marriage license.
- Baker v. Nelson: Looks at some of the reasons against same sex marriages.
- Lawrence v. Texas: Looked at the same sodomy laws.
- Israel v. Allen: Affinity restrictions constitutionality.
- Xiong v. Xiong: lays out the principles recognizing out of state
marriages.
Annulment
- Reynolds v. Reynolds: A 17 year old man seeks an annulment from
a 30 year old women because she was pregnant by another man when they
married.
- Rogers v. Rogers: Young man wants annulment since he only married
because he honestly believed the girl's father would kill him if he
failed to do so.
- VonBiroganis v. Von Brack: 12 years after marriage guy wants annulment
due to religious differences.
- Masters v. Masters: Man seeks annulment because women told him she
was pregnant and she was never pregnant.
- Darrel v. Darrell: Wife sought annulment claiming fraud because
husband lied about being impotent.
- Gabriel v. Gabriel: Husband seeks annulment since he was mentally
unfit at the time of marriage
- Foley v. Foley: Mother of minor son wants annulment on his behalf.
Cohabitation Outside Marriage
- Baker v. Couch
- Marvin v. Marvin
- Soderholm v. Kosty
- Zaremba v. Cliburn
- Powell v. Rogers
Jurisdiction
- Ankenbrandt v. Richards
- Sosna v. Iowa
- Jones v. Chandler
- Kulko v. Superior Court of California
- Sherrer v. Sherrer
- May v. Anderson
- Mcatee v. Mcatee
- Bartsch v. Barsch
- Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield
Establishing Alimony
- North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc v. Harris
- Devine v. Devine
- Orr v. Orr
- Timanus v. Timanus
- Cashman v. Cashman
- Otis v. Otis
- Cox v. Cox
- Christians v. Christians
- Haugan v. Haugan
Modifying Alimony
- Cole v. Cole
- Stickney v. Stickney
- Karon v. Karon
- Wessels v. Wessels
- Cermak v. Cermak
Part 2
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