ALIMONY HUSBANDS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 146, 17 March 1934, Page 18

ALIMONY HUSBANDS

Modification of alimony grants is expected to result from the deliberations of the committee of judges and barristers appointed by the Lord Chancellor to investigate legal anomalies.

“These discussions are of vital importance to everybody,” a prominent barrister told .the “Sunday Chronicle.” ..“Before the war there was probably not one-fifteenth of the number of divorce petitions heard in the courts to-day.

“In 1932 they totalled nearly 6000, and the huge increase is due primarily to' the law of 1914 which opened divorce to poor people through the Assize courts.

“Prior to this date divorce could be obtained in London only, and at an enormous expense.” Britain's divorce laws, he said, were far behind those of many foreign countries. If the committee succeeded in finding the remedies they would perform a great service to the public and to the courts themselves. "In many cases a woman remarries a poor man and lives with him ou the alimo’jy paid to her by her first husband,” said the barrister. "Judicial separation” is also expected to come under fire.