Hobbs v. Hobbs

After 37 years of a marriage which bore three children, now adults, James Hobbs decided to obtain a divorce from his wife, Beulah. “[B]y means of intimidation and coercion,” 1 he obtained her signature to a waiver of service and to an appearance in a divorce action he was contemplating in Nevada. No provision was made for her support. A son then interceded and prevailed upon his father to enter into a separation agreement to pay his mother eighty dollars per month, “erroneously believing, as did his mother that it provided the only means of her immediate subsistence.” 2 Then, for the purpose…