Case Name: JENKINS v. JENKINS
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1932-09-16
Citations: 259 Mich. 543
Docket Number: Docket No. 66, Calendar No. 36,579
Parties: JENKINS v. JENKINS.
Judges: Clark, C. J., and McDonald, Sharpe, North, Fead, Wiest, and Butzel, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 259
Pages: 543–544

Head Matter:
JENKINS v. JENKINS.
Divorce — Alimony—Modification of Decree — Discretion op Court.
It was within discretion of trial court to modify divorce decree requiring husband to pay $8 per week for support, maintenance, and education of minor daughter until she became 16 years of age so as to require him to pay $7 per week until she became 18 years of age, where court reserved jurisdiction to make further changes in accordance with facts (3 Comp. Laws 1929, §§ 12738, 12739).
Appeal from Kent; Brown (William B.), J.
Submitted June 10, 1932.
(Docket No. 66, Calendar No. 36,579.)
Decided September 16, 1932.
Divorce proceedings by Leeta B. Jenkins against Plarvey Jenkins. On plaintiff’s petition to amend decree for plaintiff. From order for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Linsey, Shivel & Phelps, for appellant.

Opinion:
Potter, J.
Plaintiff and defendant were formerly husband and wife. They were divorced in 1926. At that time they had one child. The court, in the decree entered, provided defendant was to pay to the clerk of the court for the care, maintenance, support, and education of the infant child, the sum of $8 a week until she should attain the age of 16 years. She is now 16 years of age. Prior to the time the daughter became 16 years of age, plaintiff filed a petition in the circuit court asking for a modification of the decree. The matter was brought on before Judge Brown before whom the case was originally tried. The testimony proceeded upon the theory the intention of the trial court before whom the case was originally tried was that defendant should pay alimony until the child should attain the age of 18 years, instead of 16 years. The trial court modified the decree so as to require defendant to pay alimony until the daughter should attain the age of 18 years, but reduced the amount of alimony from $8 a week to $7 a week.
The original decree was warranted by 3 Comp. Laws 1929, § 12738, and its revision and alteration by 3 Comp. Laws 1929, § 12739. The matter is one resting peculiarly within the discretion of the trial' court who reserved jurisdiction to make further modifications in accordance with the facts. We will not disturb his order, which is affirmed, with costs.
Clark, C. J., and McDonald, Sharpe, North, Fead, Wiest, and Butzel, JJ., concurred.