NEWHALL v. NEWHALL

Docket No. 20787.

227 Cal.App.2d 800 (1964)

39 Cal. Rptr. 144

DOROTHY M. NEWHALL, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RUTHIE M. NEWHALL, as Executrix, etc., Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

June 15, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dinkelspiel & Dinkelspiel, Richard C. Dinkelspiel and John Poppin for Defendant and Appellant.

Young, Rabinowitz & Chouteau and Walter C. Chouteau for Plaintiff and Respondent.


SULLIVAN, J.

We hold here that the obligation of a deceased husband to make payments pursuant to an approved property settlement agreement and interlocutory judgment of divorce, for the support of his minor children until their respective ages of majority, did not cease upon his death but survived as a charge against his estate. The trial court properly determined that decedent's former wife was entitled to judgment against his executrix upon the wife's creditor's...

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