Meredith v. Meredith

In this appeal, we again determine the effect of the statute lowering the age of majority on a court order for child support.

By decree entered March 13, 1970, the trial court granted Carmen G. Meredith (now Carmen G. Myer), the appellee, a divorce a vinculo matrimonii from the appellant, Clarence F. Meredith, on the ground of desertion. The decree awarded custody of Jose Meredith, infant son of the parties, to the mother, and ordered the father to pay for the “support, maintenance and education” of the child the sum of $ 100.00 each month, “to be changed only by further order” of the court.…