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308 Mich. 578

14 N.W.2d 502

Chipman v. Chipman

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided May 17, 1944

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1944-05-17

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Decided 1944-05-17

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Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1993

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*586 Sharpe, J.

¶1 (dissenting in fart). Mr. Justice Starr approves the report of the friend of the court and reverses and modifies the decree of the chancery court.

¶2 I cannot subscribe to such a result. The decree of divorce was granted in 1927 and since that time defendant has paid only a few paltry dollars for the care and maintenance of his son. To let him cancel this obligation by the payment of $300 in addition to the sum of $20 per month pending appeal is to put a premium upon an almost entirely successful evasion of a chancery decree. The fact that plaintiff remarried shortly after she secured a decree of divorce is not a sufficient reason for defendant’s failure to offer little more than a token for the support of his child. Nor do I think plaintiff is entitled to the full amount of money as is provided in the decree. To permit such a decree to stand is to aid litigants who are not diligent in the protection of their rights.

¶3 In my opinion defendant should pay the sum of $1,000 in payments of $20 per month. No costs.

Btjtzel and Bushnell, JJ., concurred with Sharpe, J.
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