Nor will the wife be entitled to alimonywhere she has sufficient means of support independent of her husband.
The remarriage of the man is not sufficient ground for reducing the alimony (Smith v.
And where the wife and husband have lived apart for many years before the institution of the suit, and she has supported herself during the separation, no alimony will be allotted.
We may also describe as a kind of alimony the allowance of a reasonable weekly sum not exceeding L.
In other states alimony without such proceedings is allowed by statute, and such alimony is now very general throughout the United States.
Permanent alimony is generally more than when pendenite lite, and usually one-third the husband's income.
Judgment for alimony is considered a judgment in personam and not in rem, and can only be enforced outside the state where rendered in case the husband has been personally served with process within that state.
Alimony is paid direct to the wife or to a trustee or trustees on her behalf, but the court may impose any restrictions which seem expedient.
The amount of alimony depends upon the circumstances of each case as in England.
Permanent alimony is that which is allotted to the wife after final decree.
In several states alimony or maintenance is by statute allowed to the husband in certain cases out of the wife's property.
The usual English practice is to allot as temporary alimony about one-fifth of the husband's net income; where it appears that the husband has no means or is in insolvent circumstances, the court will refuse to allot temporary alimony.
She may then apply for a judicial separation or a dissolution of marriage, when "she will obtain alimony in the usual way; and this will be indeed her only effectual course if the husband absconds.
Believe me, Mrs. Fieldstone, you should ought to jump right in with a motion for alimony before he spends it all on them others.
There is a story abroad that she is the consort of a well known millionaire of Chicago; after several unsuccessful attempts on her part at stabbing him, he is giving half his fortune in alimony to get rid of her.
I think you would be much worse than an idiot if, in case of my father's discarding you, you should move an inch toward obtaining alimony or in the case of the coveted 'third.
He would be obliged by law to give me alimony in proportion to his income, and, oh!
And had he been guilty of bigamy, the decree under which alimony was assigned to her would become void.
The duty of mutual support and assistance ends, but sometimes the man is directed to pay alimony to the woman.
If the divorce is granted to the wife, because of the aggression of the husband, she shall be allowed such alimony out of her husband's property as the court deems reasonable.
The judge has authority under the code to make such a provisional order respecting the payment to a wife ofalimony during the action or concerning the temporary custody of the children as may be necessary and proper.
Permanent alimony is usually smaller than temporary alimony, or alimony pendente lite, but no rule as to the amount can be safely stated, it resting in the discretion of the Court.
During the pendency of the suit the husband is liable to provide his wife with alimony or maintenance.
Temporary and permanent alimony may be granted to the wife.
The duty of mutual assistance ceases, although if justice demands the man may be ordered to pay alimony to the woman.
The amount of alimony in all cases depends upon the wife's needs, her social status, and her husband's ability to make provision for her.
The right to alimony ceases if the woman marries again.
Alimony is payable as a rule in advance monthly instalments.
Alimony may be ordered to be paid to the wife, by the decree dissolving the marriage or granting a separation, or it may be sued for separately if the wife has either obtained or is entitled to such a decree.
If a husband has no considerable property he will be directed to pay the alimonyawarded against him in monthly or weekly instalments.
Perhaps she wants to cinch her alimonyuntil she finds another affinity.
They say when she was married her prayer book was missing, so she carried a cake of ivory soap instead--The mother was divorced and could have had alimony if she had wanted it, but she had better sense than to want it.
Alimony is an allowance that the law gives the woman for her separate maintenance upon living from her husband.
In 1889 the divorce law was so amended as to give the wife all the property owned by her at the time of marriage and all acquired by her afterward, alimony being allowed from the real and personal estate of the husband.
In case of either absolute or limited divorce the husband may be required to pay alimony to the wife during her life, even if she should marry again.
If living separate from him, the wife may sue for alimonywithout divorce if legal cause exist.
Support for the wife may be granted by the court the same as alimony in divorce, if the husband have property in the State.
If this is insufficient for the support of herself and her children the court may decree alimonyfrom the husband's estate.
Alimony is allowed to the wife whether the suit for divorce is brought by her or against her, or whether she asks simply for separation; but, even if divorced, unchastity on her part will bar her right to further alimony.
In case of divorce the wife is entitled to all the property owned by her at marriage and all acquired by her afterwards, alimony being allowed from the real and personal estate of the husband.
The husband must support the wife according to his means, or she may have alimony decreed by the court without divorce, or in some cases she may sue directly for support.
Lohengrin on the ground of desertion and non-support, obtained her decree, with back alimony of twenty-five per cent.
Lady Harman had had to cut the Social Friends' meeting altogether, but the day before the surprise Agatha Alimony had come to tea in her jobbed car, and they had gone together to the committee meeting of the Shakespear Dinner Society.
When Miss Alimony returned Lady Harman put down the paper almost guiltily.
Miss Alimony was one of that large and increasing number of dusky, grey-eyed ladies who go through life with an air of darkly incomprehensible significance.
Then she became aware of the evening newspaper Miss Alimony had been reading.
There were ways to make a man pay his alimony regularly, and the little girl would stay with her mother, of course; at her age no other solution was possible.
George bored her now; as a matter of fact, Emeline had almost decided that she would prefer alimony to George.
She asked everyone she met to lend her money, though she was well off, and in receipt of a handsome alimonyfrom her husband's relatives.
It tickled him to think of her anguish in not being able to spend the income from her alimony on furs and feathers with which to bedeck herself.
We find, indeed, from the Florentine statutes, that while the preference given to the agnates increases as time goes on, so too the woman's rights to alimony increase.
The statute of 1355 concedes to her the usufruct of the paternal inheritance, on failure of male issue, while under the same circumstances, later statutes deny her this right, allowing her alimony instead.
She could not succeed even to her father; but was entitled to receive her dowry from the agnates, and could meanwhile, even if a widow, claim alimony from them.
This is the usufruct for whichalimony is afterwards substituted.
In the case of a separation a mensa et thoro alimony was allowed the wife for her support out of her husband's estate at the discretion of the ecclesiastical judges.
No limited divorce; but wife may obtain alimony without divorce for any causes above mentioned.
Her anxiety to find him is very properly to get her lawful share in that property, that is, alimony with her divorce?
Well, as you wish it then, I shall bring suit for divorce and alimony against Horace Endicott, and have the papers served on Arthur Dillon.
The time was hazardously long yet short, in a sense, for her alimony was to end at the end of three months if she married again, and marrying again was her next ambition.
He handed the papers to Cheever, who handed them to Tessier, who hastily dictated an answer denying the adultery, the alleged income, and the propriety of the alimony claimed.
She glanced over it and found it true except that Zada L'Etoile was not named; Cheever's alleged income was vastly larger than she imagined, and her claim for alimony was exorbitant.
I'll get that little woman an alimony that will break all known records and I'll take a percentage of the gate receipts as they come in.
The judge entertained a suit for divorce andalimony brought into his court by Ann Eliza Webb, the plural wife of President Brigham Young.
It should be said that, after a separation, claims for non-payment of alimony cannot, in many states, be pressed in a court of domestic relations but must go to a civil court.
It has exclusive jurisdiction in all divorce and alimony cases, and all matters coming under the Juvenile Court Act.
