Brooks v. Brooks

This is an appeal from that portion of an interlocutory decree (granting to appellant a divorce on the ground of desertion) by which he was ordered to pay $650 for the support and maintenance of respondent wife, in monthly installments of $50 each, beginning August 19, 1941.

Appellant urges that it is only when the divorce is granted for the offense of the husband that such support may be awarded to the wife.

The parties hereto intermarried on September 29, 1936, and separated on or about June 28, 1940, there being no children of the union. On July 22, 1940, appellant husband filed an action…