Gray v. Gray

One of the questions raised arises from the fact that in the judgment of divorce the court both provided for a final division of estate between the parties and granted the wife alimony. For many years the law in this state was that when the provision made in a judgment of divorce for the wife was a division of property, such provision excluded the possibility of any allowance to her for alimony, and that any provision for alimony in addition to the final distribution of estate should be treated, as a nullity. Wacker v. Wacker (1929), 199 Wis. 197, 225 N. W. 749; Trush v. Trush (1931), 204…