Dawson v. Dawson

Citations

• 110 Ill. 279

Syllabus

<p>Alimony—of its reasonableness. After a decree of divorce in favor of a wife, giving her the custody of the two children of the marriage, (a son, aged fifteen years, and a daughter, aged thirteen years,) it was agreed that the husband should pay the wife $150 per month, which was more than one-half of his net income, and give her all his household furniture, worth from $3000 to $5000, and the court decreed accordingly. The wife agreed to this, with full knowledge of the husband’s circumstances, and was in no respect deceived or misled, and it appeared that she brought to the husband no property, and that the burden of paying taxes and assessments, and rebuilding, repairing, renting, collecting rents, etc., was left upon him. Afterward, the wife filed her petition to be allowed a further sum for the support and education of the children, and the court required the husband to pay $25 per month additional alimony, and to pay the wife’s solicitor $200, and the costs of the proceeding: Held, the sum first allowed was sufficient, and that the wife should pay her own attorney’s fees, and the supplemental decree increasing the alimony and directing the husband to pay the attorney’s fees was reversed, each party to pay the costs incurred by him or her.</p>