Bartlett v. Bartlett

In a 1963 divorce decree plaintiff Dorothy Bartlett was awarded custody of her two children, and defendant Malcolm Bartlett was ordered to pay $20 per week child support. In 1978, plaintiff instituted a contempt proceeding to collect unpaid support, and at the hearing which followed, plaintiff testified, inter alia, that defendant had made no support payments since July 1970; that she had married Richard Cassidy in 1969, and defendant had also remarried; that in July of 1970, she agreed defendant could stop paying support if he would stop seeing the children. The parties stipulated that,…