Williams v. Williams

The opinion filed, in my judgment, overlooks the broad powers granted equity courts in divorce cases, especially where minor children are involved. The legislature of this State has vested continuing jurisdiction in trial courts over the care, custody and maintenance of minor children of divorced parents, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, ch. 40, par. 19 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 109, 186], and it seems clear to me that this jurisdiction, to be complete, must in-elude the power to oversee the application of support money for the benefit of such children.

T am not impressed with the argument that the…