Roberts v. Roberts

Plaintiff has appealed from a trial court order modifying a divorce decree provision which required defendant to pay $200 per month each for the support of two daughters. Custody of the girls, now 14 and 11 years of age, was awarded to the mother. The modification reduced the support payments to $100 per month for each child, and was responsive to a motion of defendant to eliminate all support requirements.

The divorce was decreed in March 1964, following what the trial judge described as an “intensely” contested trial. Besides providing for support, the decree divided and disposed of…