Leighton v. Leighton

This case is before us on the respondent’s exception to the decision of a justice of the Superior Court refusing to modify a final decree directing him to pay alimony to the petitioner. •

On April 19, 1924, the Superior Court entered a decree divorcing the parties on petition of the wife. The decree awarded to the petitioner the custody of the three minor children of the parties and the sum of $12 per week as alimony. The decree contained no provision that the respondent be permitted to see the children. It appears that sometime thereafter the petitioner with the children moved from Rhode…