Fairbank v. Fairbank

The appeal in this case is from an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, modifying a former decree of that court, which awarded the appellant the sum of seven dollars per week as permanent alimony.

The order appealed from reduces the amount of permanent alimony from the original award to the sum of four dollars per month, and further provides that all alimony arrearages as of the date of the modifying decree be “held in abeyance,” with the usual reservation that the changes effected by the modifying order be, and remain, subject to the further order of the court.

The parties to this…