Bentz v. Bentz

The principal question to be decided is whether, where the Court of Appeals has made an order granting temporary alimony to a wife for her sustenance during the pend-ency of an appeal before it from a final order and decree which granted a divorce and awarded permanent alimony to the wife and where such final order and decree is affirmed on that appeal, payments of amounts for such temporary alimony must be credited against amounts due for such permanent alimony.

This is a question of first impression in Ohio.

Provision for what is referred to in this opinion as temporary alimony is made by…