Shaw v. Shaw

The Chancellor :

The defendant and the complainant are husband and wife, and it must be conceded that this court ordinarily has jurisdiction over contracts made by persons standing in that relation. Coxe v. Coxe, 20 Del. Ch. 384, 178 A. 104.

The payments to be made by the defendant, provided for in the contract, are solely for the education, maintenance and support of the infant children of the parties thereto, and no provision, whatever, is made for the benefit of the complainant, the wife of the defendant. While she is a party to the contract, so far as those provisions are concerned she is…