Snouffer v. Snouffer

Whether alimony awarded by court order, to be paid to the wife monthly ‘ ‘ so long as she remains unmarried,” continues beyond the decease of the husband, is the question before us.

The Probate Court held that the alimony obligation does not abate with the death of the husband; that where the marriage relation has not been dissolved, or where the husband has been forced to pay alimony to his wife without divorce, there is no obligation in law upon the husband to support his wife beyond his own lifetime, for the reason that his widow is entitled to share in her husband’s estate under the…