Jacobs v. Jacobs

This appeal questions the authority of a chancellor to enter a divorce decree fixing a future increase in a spousal support award, contingent upon an increase in the obligor’s income.

The decree, entered March 1, 1977, granted Marjorie Jacobs (wife) a final divorce from Alan Leonard Jacobs, Sr., (husband) on the ground of adultery. In a lengthy letter opinion, the chancellor found that the standard of living during coverture was “modest”; that husband gave wife “around $650 per month apparently for food, clothing . . . and running the house, which at that time involved two growing boys”; that…