Wolfe v. Wolfe

The basic issue presented— whether the Court of Common Pleas has power to modify the terms of a decree of divorce previously issued by it, which relate to an allowance of “alimony”—is a problem fraught with such infelicities that, in the opinion of a ma*402jority of this court, it requires us to reexamine the basis , and method upon which alimony is awarded in this state.

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Marriage and divorce have existed in some form since the earliest phases of civilization.

Although divorce was apparently unknown in the Homeric ag’e,1 later, under the Athenian law (Circa 212 A. D.),2 Greek husbands and wives…