Legal Opinion

Payette v. Payette

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided December 1, 1931PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMarble, J.

The superior court has authority, where a divorce is decreed, to order the husband to pay to his wife such sum of money as may be deemed just (P. L., c. 287, s. 16), to make such further decree in relation to the maintenance, education and custody of the children as shall be most conducive to their benefit, and to order a reasonable provision for the support of the children to be made by the guilty party, or out of his estate (P. L., c. 287, s. 15).

The husband was the guilty party upon the record in the present case, and no question is raised as to the validity of the original order. Neither…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Esteb v. EstebWashington Supreme Court · 1926

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Key Nieves v. Oyola NievesSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1985
  2. Com. Ex Rel. Binney v. BinneySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  3. Jackman v. ShortOregon Supreme Court · 1940
  4. Strom v. StromAppellate Court of Illinois · 1957
  5. Comer v. ComerSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1970

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