Brieger v. Brieger

An undesirable amount of confusion and fiction has crept into the law of Kansas relating to alimony and child support judgments. I am able to see neither logic nor necessity for the holding expressed in our majority opinion and I register my dissent to the court’s syllabus 3. Our special concern for the children of broken homes has resulted in extending certain special protections to assure their support. This is understandable when necessary for their protection. But the courts have adequate authority to enforce payment of support by both attachment of the person and by impressing a specific…