DIVORCE AND MAINTENANCE
JUDGE’S WARNING TO WIFE. [PER press association.] AUCKLAND, May 23. A statement that a wife who did not defend a petition for restitution of conjugal rights, thereby admitted desertion, and was not entitled to claim maintenance, was made by Mr. Justice Callan, at the Supreme Court, to-day. His Honor said he had had applications for maintenance from divorc - ed wives, and they, and their counsel, were startled on being informed they had no claim, where a divorce had been obtained for failure to make restitution of conjugal rights. Albert Henry James sought a decree ordering his wife to return to him. Petitioner said that when he shifted to the country, ■ his wife agreed to follow after a home had been procured, but had not done so.
The Judge ordered the wife to return within 28 days, adding, “U should be made abundantly clear to this very young woman, that if she does not'obey the order, it would be useless for her to go to Court to get maintenance from him. She will ?et the short answer that she was„ told to go home, and she didn’t go.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1941, Page 2
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