Coastal Adjustment Bureau, Inc. v. Wehner

The trial court held that a creditor who furnished necessaries for minor children upon the order of the divorced mother may recover against the father and that the father may not show in his defense that all payments required under the decree are current.

Courts dealing with the problem in other states have found a variety of solutions. The specific reasons for the results are as varied as the statutes and factual settings in the cases. See Annotation, 7 ALR 2d 491 (1949). But the general rule seems to be that a divorce decree fixing the amount of child support to be paid by the father fixes…