Heinsohn v. Chandler

The Chancellor:

When the defendant, following the final decree in divorce of March 4, 1935, reduced the weekly payments to twenty-five dollars, he entertained the view, as expressed by his attorney in the letter of March 30, 1936, that since the complainant was no longer his wife the agreement”, in so far as it contemplated support for her, was possibly terminated. In his attorney’s letter of March 25, 1937, however, the twenty-five dollar weekly payments are stated to have been for “the support of wife and children,” which expression is at variance with the previously expressed view.

Did the…