Homewood v. Homewood

Under the provisions of New Hampshire Rev. Stat. Ann. § 458:19 (1968) (the text of which is set forth in the margin),1 that State places a three-year limit on alimony payments to the wife of a couple which has no minor children. Unless an order for alimony is renewed, modified or *865extended by the court, the obligation to pay alimony expires after three years. We reverse a judgment of a Probate Court which applied the New Hampshire statute so as to cut off alimony (paid pursuant to an order of the Superior Court of New Hampshire) three years after the only minor child of a couple attained…