Groves v. Alexander

A divorced wife is appealing from a summary judgment in favor of her former husband for $17,000, a quarterly payment of “alimony” she had agreed in a separation and property rights agreement to pay him on March 1, 1968. The wife claims that after the divorce and after she had made one of the agreed payments, the husband obtained custody of the children despite his having led her to believe he would not ask custody, and seeks to justify her refusal to make the payments she had agreed to make by saying the agreement was based on a promise to facilitate or not defend a divorce of him by her or…