Giradot v. Giradot

Where the husband filed his libel for divorce, and pending the same the wife filed in the same court a separate suit seeking to recover temporary and permanent alimony and counsel fees, and to set aside a contract between her and her husband, in which they had agreed upon a settlement of all her claims for alimony, and which had been fully performed by the husband, upon the grounds (a) that it was made for the purpose of promoting a dissolution of their marriage, (b) that she did not understand that she was signing a contract relinquishing all her claims to alimony, (c) that the provision…