Won’t Pay For Divorced Mother

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 63, 16 March 1938, Page 10

Won’t Pay For Divorced Mother

SAYS E450-A-YEAR SON Should a man be forced to contribute towards the upkeep of his divorced mother? Wood Green (England) magistrates had his question before them recently, when a £450-a-year bank clerk with eight children was summoned for refusing to pay 7s 4d towards the 12s a week allowed to his mother as out-relief. I The clerk, Ronald Davidson, of Archway road, Highgate, said he refused to

pay because his mother, Mrs L. Glover, of Slyvan avenue, Wood Green, was divorced from his father 35 years ago, when he was only 11. “My half-brother—by my mother’s second marriage—can equally well afford to pay, 77 added Davidson. “My mother is not entitled to relief as she is a wholesale milliner with her name in the telephone directory. 77 Davidson’s solicitor said the law required a member of a family to pay according to natural considerations, but Davidson had had no maternal upbringing and was under no obligation to pay. The magistrate dismissed the sum'mons on the ground that there was no evidence that Mrs Glover was a poor person.