The Weekly Law Reports
[1966] 3 WLR 1193
[PROBATE, ETC., DIVISION]
NORTHROP
v.
NORTHROP
1966 Oct. 11,
12,
28
Sir JOCELYN SIMON P. and KARMINSKI J.
Husband and Wife
— Justices
— Child, maintenance for
— Wilful neglect to maintain wife and child
— Consensual separation
— £2 per week paid for child
— No express agreement to maintain wife
— £2 inadequate for child if no maintenance for wife
— Child dependent upon wife
— Failure to maintain child throwing obligation onto wife
— Wife's earning capacity thereby impaired
— Whether necessary implication that husband agrees to support wife
— Principles to be applied in assessing quantum of maintenance.