Davis v. Davis

The plaintiff was granted a divorce from the defendant in 1934. The final decree awarded her custody of the four minor children of the marriage and directed the defendant to pay $30 per week for the support and maintenance of the divorced wife and the children. In November, 1947, the plaintiff filed a petition setting forth her remarriage in 1939, that three children had attained majority but that a daughter, Doreen, aged nineteen was unable to work and that defendant had made no payments under the final decree since February, 1942. The petition concluded with a prayer that the court fix the…