Murphy v. Murphy

This case, brought under G. L. c. 209, § 32, came before the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk on the petition of Helen Murphy for separate support, and is before this court on the appeal of the respondent from a decree of a judge of that court, ordering the respondent to pay to the petitioner $5 per week, and to pay her counsel a fee of $30 within thirty days.

The facts found by the judge under G. L. c. 215, § 11, at the request of the respondent, disclose that the respondent, a resident of the Commonwealth, was divorced in this Commonwealth by his first wife, which divorce became…