Cooper v. Cooper

LETTS, Associate Justice.

Plaintiff and defendant, with their two children, occupy the same apartment. She seeks a limited divorce and incident thereto presents her motion for alimony pendente lite. She invokes the rule announced in Pedersen v. Pedersen decided by our Court of Appeals on August 14, 1939, App.D.C., 107 F.2d 227.

To apply the doctrine of the Pedersen case to the facts alleged in the instant case would be a misinterpretation of what the court there said. The Pedersen case does not depart from the established rule that to entitle a wife to a temporary allowance for maintenance she…