Pate v. Pate

These are two petitions, one a miscellaneous petition, so called, for relief without the commencement of an action for divorce pursuant to the provisions of G. L. 1956, §15-5-19, wherein the petitioning wife seeks an allowance for support. The other is a husband’s petition for an absolute divorce. The petitions were heard separately by a justice of the family court who thereafter entered a decree on June 1, 1962 denying and dismissing the miscellaneous petition of the wife. The husband’s petition for an absolute divorce was granted after hearing on June 21, 1962, and an interlocutory decree,…