Elkin v. Ehrens

Ordinarily, alimony is the end product of the fission of matrimony by acrimony. Eaise the stakes of the matrimonial battle to include not only money, but children, and the ensuing rancor as the estranged parents pull, tug and haul for possession of the bodies and minds of their children tends to blind all concerned to the ultimate objective, the welfare and happiness of the children.

This is such a case. A father, claiming to have been deprived of his rights of visitation with his children, when the mother remarried and took the children with her to Mexico, has retaliated by cutting off all…