THE RIGHTS OF A MOTHER-INLAW.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 19 February 1909, Page 3

THE RIGHTS OF A MOTHER-IN-LAW.

t j ■■•■" v? riew Jersey supreme Court. Joage. Stevenson deliyere'ff - a knockout blow to able-bodied mothers-in-law when-he decided that Mr Johii Keery must'either pay his wife alimony or oust his mother. Judge Stevenson said:—"Home is :not home where there, is a mother-in-law. If a man installs his mother in his home when she is able to provide for herself elsewhere, it is not such a home as a wife must accept, and in" the eyes of the law such conduct on the part of a husband is" abandonment of his wife." If, however, a man's mother is indigent and his income is- riot sufficient to.provide a home for her elsewhere; it is his duty to take her into his home and ask his wife to make-the best of the situation. In this case the mother-in-law-is a vigorous woman, able to obtain employment and,take care of herself. ; When offered - employment, Mr-Keery's mother .declined, saying her son's farm was not run right, and that, she would- run things for him".. The defendant's wife objected to the presence of her mother-in-law, aiidjleft; when her husband refused to put his mother;6u"t.'~That"fefusal \yas construed as/an act of abandonment by the wife,and she was right;" '■