Provenza v. Provenza

This appeal is from a decree awarding permanent alimony, without divorce, to a wife in the amount of $100 a week, awarding her custody of a minor child born in 1950 and the sum of $25 a week for support, ordering the payment of a counsel fee. of $750 to the wife’s solicitor, and dismissing the husband’s cross-bill praying an absolute divorce. The chancellor also allowed a $350 counsel fee for the appeal to this Court.

The parties were married in 1946 and apparently lived happily together until 1956. The appellant is a dentist, and in that year he sold his general practice to a Dr. Pessagno,…