Vandervoort v. Vandervoort

Defendant-husband brings this interlocutory appeal in a divorce action from two orders of the trial court, the first holding him in contempt for willful failure to pay temporary allowances for support and maintenance awarded to appellee and the second applying F.S. § 61.08, F.S.A., as amended by Chapter 71-241, Laws of Florida, which gave the court discretion in hearing the defense of adultery to mitigate or bar completely alimony awarded to the wife.

The parties had been married for ten years when plaintiff-wife filed for divorce charging her husband with extreme cruelty and seeking awards…