Welch v. Welch

Head, Justice.

It is insisted by counsel for the plaintiff in error (defendant in the petition for modification of the alimony judgment) that the petition for modification was prematurely brought; that it was the intention of the legislature in the passage of the act allowing petitions for modification of alimony judgments that no such petition could be brought until after the expiration of two years from the time the original petition was filed in the action in which alimony was awarded.

The act authorizing the filing of a petition to modify a judgment for permanent alimony (Ga. L. 1955, pp.…