Gordon v. Gordon

This is a petition for certiorari to review the action of the family court in modifying an interlocutory decree which it had previously entered with the consent of the parties to a pending divorce proceeding. We issued the writ and pursuant thereto the pertinent record has been certified to this court.

The interlocutory decree entered on May 3, 1962 ordered the husband, the petitioner here, to pay his wife $50 a week for her support and $150 as a counsel fee for the prosecution of her pending petition for divorce, and the husband has complied therewith. Nevertheless on July 23, 1962 the wife…