Court Opinion

ID: 9535562
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:50:52.059737+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:16.868668
License: Public Domain

MAUGHAN, Justice
(dissenting):
For the following reasons I cannot join in the main opinion.
Here 'plaintiff seeks the aid of equity to secure an award of 5V2 years of alimony, after maintaining total silence for that period of time. The main opinion remands the matter for inquiry into defendant’s financial circumstances. I would also require inquiry to be made into the reasons for plaintiff’s stale demand. If they are not conscionable, equity should refuse to enforce the award, or make such modifications as satisfy the conscience of the court. From this record plaintiff seems to me to appear after the fashion of a spring gun.