Goulart v. Goulart

Appellant, the widow of decedent and executrix of his estate, appeals from an order granting family allowance to his two minor children by a prior marriage, and purports to appeal from the order denying rehearing.

Question Presented

Where a divorce decree provides for child support payments, is a creditor’s claim in the father’s estate the exclusive method of obtaining support for said children ?

Facts

Ethel Ann Goulart, who as guardian ad litem of the two minor children of said decedent, filed this proceeding, is the divorced wife of decedent. By final decree of divorce, dated October 22, 1953,…