Walton v. Walton

On June 11, 1941, I entered "an order directing respondent to pay the sum of ten dollars a week toward support of his wife and child “ Joseph ” (born March 21, 1940).

*747That order adjudged respondent to be chargeable with the support of petitioner wife as well as the child according to respondent’s means. It was accompanied by an opinion which stated that such amount was based on respondent’s actual and potential earning capacity and all the other existing circumstances. And, altho predicated upon a means basis, that order Avas actually in a sum less than the low subsistence level of a public…