Gaylord v. Stuart

This is an appeal from judgment for $8,400 in plaintiff’s favor in her action for accrued and unpaid alimony due from defendant under the terms of a Connecticut divorce decree. The Connecticut decree, entered in 1948, awarded plaintiff “alimony in the amount of $350 per month from this date through and including the month of June, 1949,” and thereafter at the rate of $250 per month. With plaintiff’s consent, alimony on and after October 1, 1956, was reduced to $200 per month.

Defendant’s claim on appeal is that alimony in Connecticut may be awarded only from “the husband’s income, whether the…