Messier v. Bickford

This case involves an appeal from a judgment below in the amount of $2,611.62 awarded to plaintiff for a child support arrearage.

We are asked to decide whether a divorce decree which sets an undivided weekly sum to be paid for the support of three children is deemed to require payment of the entire sum until the youngest child attains majority or whether the undivided child support award abates proportionately as each child comes of age.

By stipulation the defendant agreed to pay $39.57 a week as child support for three minor children, and the support provisions of the stipulation were made…