Commonwealth ex rel. Mitterling v. Mitterling

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of support entered in favor of a wife and two children. The action was brought under §733 of The Penal Code of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, as amended, 18 P.S. §4733.

*540The parties separated March 26, 1961. The wife and three children, ages 18, 15 and 9, remained in the family home, and the father, a physician, left it to reside at his office. After the separation, the defendant paid most of the expenses related to the premises in which his family resided and paid $100 a week to his wife for her and their children’s support. When the oldest…