Balance v. Balance

MERRILL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree requiring the appellant to pay $30 per month for the support and maintenance of appellee’s minor child and solicitor’s fees.

The appellee married Robert Gaines in May 1951. On July 5, 1951, Gaines “went back into the Marines” and a few weeks later the appellee began to have illicit sexual relations with Lucian Balance, the appellant. These relations continued almost every weekend and in August or September she became pregnant. She secured a divorce from Gaines on December 21, 1951, in Jefferson County, and married Lucian Balance five days later…