Arnold v. Arnold

On June 8, 1956, the plaintiff was granted a divorce from the defendant on the ground of intolerable cruelty. Custody of the one minor child born on June 21, 1952, was awarded to the plaintiff. The defendant was given the right of reasonable visitation and was ordered to pay to the plaintiff the sum of $15 per week for the support of the minor child.

Apparently the defendant did not exercise his visitation rights nor did he make his support payments. The plaintiff, however, took no action to collect the support payments until twenty-two years later when on September 15, 1978, the defendant was…