Cote v. Cote

The present proceeding is not one to recover money due and needed for the support of the children. It is for the equitable purpose of reimbursing a mother, the plaintiff, for expenditures of hers caused by the default of the father, the defendant, under a court order with respect to payments for the support of their children.

Among the findings of the Trial Judge is the following: “It is found, however, that both parties entered into the remarriage with the understanding that ‘bygones would be bygones,’ and that past obligations of either were forgiven to the extent they legally could be.”…