108 Mo. App. 204 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1904
(after stating the facts). — In view of all the evidence, the allowance is a very reasonable one, if the plaintiff is entitled to anything at all. The contention of defendant is that the plaintiff’s demand is one which can not be legally allowed against the estate, for the reason that the decree of divorce, so long as it stands, furnishes the measure of the rights and obligations of the parties to that decree. That if the decree was inadequate or failed to furnish support to the minor children, plaintiff’s remedy, and only remedy, was to apply to the divorce court for a modification of the decree and by proper motion ask an allowance for the maintenance of the minor children. Our statute on divorce (sec. 2926, Revised Statutes 1899) makes it the duty of the court granting the decree of divorce to “make such order touching the alimony and the maintenance of. the wife, and the care, custody and maintenance of the children as shall be reasonable.” Section 2932 provides that there may be a review of any order or judgment touching the alimony and maintenance of the wife and the care and custody and maintenance of the children. The decree of divorce, while, it shows that the children were in the mind of the court at the time the decree was entered, fails to show that any order or judgment was made or.rendered for their future maintenance. Defendant, however, contends that their maintenance was provided for in the allowance, of the two thousand dollars as alimony in gross to the wife. The decree does
Discovering no reversible error in the record, the judgment is affirmed.