Court Opinion

ID: 7282008
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-25 20:13:14.542911+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:19:03.145545
License: Public Domain

Ingersoll, V. C.
This is an application for alimony pendente lite.
Most voluminous affidavits have been filed. While it is clear that the wife is unable, because of ill-health, to perform any duties as a wife, and there is testimony that the seashore is not a suitable residence for her, I am satisfied that the motion must be denied, and the bill for maintenance brought to a final hearing. The wife insists on living at some other place than the residence of the defendant, although he offers her a home with him.
In Barefoot v. Barefoot, 83 N. J. Eq. 685, the court said: “The law requires a husband to support his wife. It is his right to require her to receive that support in his heme as his wife, unless he has lost that right by his conduct. It is only when he desires her presence in his home that her pres*1053ence in that home can be made a condition precedent to his obligation ol: support.’'’
It also appears that the wife has sufficient property to support herself. This is sufficient to deny alimony pendente lite. Wexterfield v. Westerfield, 36 N. J. Eq. 195.
The motion for alimony pendente lite is denied, but, should the cause he referred to me, I will designate a very short day for the hearing.