Cochran v. Cochran

I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority opinion which strikes the support and attorney’s fee provisions of the final judgment of divorce.

The case concerns the marital rights of a wife who, waiving future support, secured an interlocutory decree of divorce upon grounds of extreme cruelty, and then, upon her husband’s insistence gave him another chance and entered upon a conditional reconciliation with resumption of marital relations. The majority opinion holds, in effect, that the husband, with or without cause and even wrongfully, may terminate the conditional reconciliation…