3 Edw. Ch. 387 | New York Court of Chancery | 1840
:—If the answer be true, the complainant has no just cause of complaint against her husband.
Besides, the master’s report does not show, very clearly and satisfactorily, what are the circumstances of the defendant as to means or the ability he has to pay the amount reported for alimony and fee to counsel. These sums should be regulated, in some measure, by his ability and means.
Upon the whole, then, the exceptions to the report, in respect to those allowances, must, I think, be allowed ; reserving to the complainant the right to apply again to the court, upon additional facts to be presented. And, with regard to the custody of the child, no order, at present, seems to be necessary. If the wife should be denied access to it or the privilege of visiting it, wherever it may be, she can then apply for the interference of the court.
Order : allowing all the exceptions to the report. Costs to abide the event of the suit.