Sellman v. Sellman

In this appeal a husband challenges an award of alimony pendente lite to his wife made by an order passed more than six months after a decree granting the wife a limited divorce and requiring the husband to pay permanent alimony.

After the wife had sued for a divorce a mensa, an order was signed requiring the husband to pay alimony pendente lite of $40.00 per week “for 24 weeks, or until trial of the case if trial shall occur during such period, subject to further Order of the Court.” At the trial 19 weeks later (the husband in the meantime having made the required payments), the wife’s…