Bauman v. Bauman

This appeal challenges the authority of the chancellor to postpone the commencement of weekly support payments he had allowed in a suit for separate maintenance.

After having lived with his wife for about thirty years, the husband deserted her. He left a note saying that he was taking the car and that she could have “all else.” A day or so later, the wife withdrew the more than $4000 she and her husband had deposited in a joint savings account and redeposited the money in the name of herself and her sister. A joint checking account containing approximately $125 was also closed and reopened in…