Commonwealth ex rel. Litz v. Litz

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

The original order in this case requiring the respondent to pay $40 per week for the support of his *312wife and their 8-year old daughter was entered on August 30,1956. Since that time there have been numerous petitions for reduction in the amount of the order, and with some success; on November 9, 1956 there was a reduction (for reasons which to us are not entirely convincing) to $34 per week. Since then the defendant has defaulted in his payments on the order for one week out of almost every month, and at the time of the final order with which we are concerned, the amount in…