Leeds v. Leeds

The agreement of March 13,1941, to the extent that it purports to relieve defendant of his obligation to provide continuing support to the plaintiff after the child of the marriage attains the age of twenty-one years, is void as against the public policy of the. State (Hyff v. Hyff, 286 N. Y. 71). “Section 51 [Domestic Relations Law], insofar as pertinent, provides that ‘a husband and wife cannot contract to alter or dissolve the marriage or to relieve the husband from his liability to support his wife.’ By such statutory prohibition, husband and wife are stripped of power to relieve the…