Stansbury v. Stansbury

This appeal is concerned with an oft recurring phase of the war of the sexes—the primeval struggle for division of the husband’s financial productivity after the couple have separated.

When the husband, the appellee, deserted his wife, the appellant, he agreed to pay her $100.00 a week. Temporary alimony was set at $75.00 a week when her bill for divorce was filed, and on June 25, 1959, Judge Niles granted her an a mensa divorce and awarded permanent alimony of $125.00 a week. An appeal was noted on July 2, and the time for filing the record in this Court later was extended to September 28.…