spousal-support
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-928 | Joseph Habib Goro v. Wassen Kanouno, fka Wassen Goro | Pennsylvania | 2026-02-05 | Pending | divorce-settlement equitable-distribution financial-disclosure marital-assets property-division spousal-support | 1. Does the Respondent have a right to 50% of Petitioner's finances after hiding her own finances and being absent for a greater portion of the marria… | |
| 25A804 | Duane A. Fairfax v. Tracey N. Martinez | Virginia | 2026-01-12 | Application | contempt-enforcement federal-preemption spousal-support supremacy-clause va-disability veterans-benefits | 1. Whether the Supremacy Clause and 38 U.S.C. § 5301(a) prohibit a state court from enforcing spousal support through contempt, garnishment, or equiva… | |
| 24-834 | Evgeny Pistrak v. Kseniia Golubeva | Washington | 2025-02-05 | Denied | Response Waived | federal-preemption immigration-law maintenance-obligations spousal-support state-court supremacy-clause | Whether the Supremacy Clause and federal immigration law preempt a state court from imposing maintenance obligations solely because a spouse lacks wor… |
| 23-6538 | Ye-Ying Cen v. Oliver Wilfred Cass | Minnesota | 2024-01-23 | Denied | IFP | alimony-tax-law cognitive-impairments due-process fairness fiduciary-duty guardian-ad-litem legal-ethics procedural-fairness spousal-support | Informed-consent-breach-of-fiduciary-duty |
| 21-6971 | Byron Case v. Douglas County, Oregon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process federal-preemption military-benefits military-disability spousal-support state-court-jurisdiction state-courts supremacy-clause veterans-affairs veterans-rights | Whether federal laws 10 U.S.C. § 1408 and 38 U.S.C. § 5301 can be overridden by state laws regarding military veterans' disability income or assets |
| 20-168 | Paul W. Nusbaum, Jr. v. Marsha R. Nusbaum, et al. | Maryland | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | agency-determination arrearages child-support federal-regulations judicial-review public-assistance separation-of-powers spousal-support | Whether the federal and state governments have a direct interest in how child support payments are applied when the obligee is not receiving public as… |
| 18-8710 | Veronica Moody Johnson v. Social Security Administration | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment due-process lien lien-enforcement social-security social-security-administration spousal-support | Whether the United States District Court had jurisdiction to make a 14th Amendment due process declaration of rights |
| 18-519 | Joseph A. Jennings, III v. Susan W. Jennings | Ohio | 2018-10-19 | Denied | agent-orange disability-compensation domestic-relations federal-law federal-preemption howell-v-howell preemption service-connected-disability spousal-support state-law veterans-benefits veterans-disability-benefits | Whether veterans disability compensation may lawfully be included as a source of income in determining spousal support in a non-community property sta… | |
| 18-5590 | Veronica M. Johnson v. Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-act judicial-immunity ministerial-duty spousal-support spousal-support-judgment | Is judicial immunity an affirmative defense that must be pleaded and proved by a judge when Plaintiff files a clearly stated, sufficiently documented … |