Friou v. Gentes

There can be no doubt that legal services rendered to a wife may, under varying circumstances, be classed as necessaries (cf. Dravecka v. Richard, 267 N. Y. 180) for which appellant might have been liable while the relationship of husband and wife existed between appellant and his former wife. I am unable to agree, however, that appellant’s obligation to furnish necessaries to his wife survived the judgment of divorce in Vermont, which terminated the marital relationship, except insofar as that obligation was continued in the form of an award of alimony (cf. Fox v. Fox, 263 N. Y. 68; Turner…