Lamarche v. Lamarche

This appeal marks the second occasion, we have been asked to resolve a controversy between the litigants. The dispute had its inception with the entry on May 18, 1967, in the Family Court of an ex parte order suspending the operation of a provision in a final divorce decree that required the husband to pay the wife $30 a week for the support of their two minor children. In Lamarche v. Lamarche, 108 R. I. 213, 218, 273 A.2d 860, 862 (1971), we ruled that the suspension order, having been entered without any notice of its possible entry being given to the wife, was void and a nullity.

In the…