NO MAINTENANCE
WOMEN WHO DISOBEY ORDERS (P.A.) AUCKLANDD, 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, in the Supreme Court to-f.ay. His Honour said that he had had applications for maintenance from divorced wives and they and their counsel Were startled on being informed that 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 she had not done so. Bis Honour ordered the wife to returh within 28 days, adding: “It should be made abundantly clear to this very young woman that if she does not obey the order it will be useless for her to go to Court to get maintenance from him. She will get a short answer. She was told to go home and she did not go.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21971, 24 May 1941, Page 6
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190NO MAINTENANCE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21971, 24 May 1941, Page 6
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