The Weekly Law Reports
[1967] 3 WLR 907
[COURT OF APPEAL]
NORTHROP
v.
NORTHROP
1967 April 17,
18,
19;
May 11
May 11
WILLMER, DIPLOCK and WINN L.JJ.
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.
Husband and Wife
— Justices
— Wilful neglect to maintain child only
— Jurisdiction to award maintenance for wife
— Jurisdiction to make matrimonial orders
— Quantum of maintenance for wife that which is reasonable in all the circumstances
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Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act, 1960 (8 & 9 Eliz. 2, c. 48), ss. 1 (1), 2 (1).