WIFE, S. v. HUSBAND, S.


295 A.2d 768 (1972)

WIFE, S., Plaintiff, v. HUSBAND, S., Defendant.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

August 22, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Booker, of Booker, Green, Shaffer, Berl & Wise, Wilmington, for plaintiff.

H. Alfred Tarrant, Jr., of Cooch & Taylor, Wilmington, for defendant.


DUFFY, Chancellor:

Plaintiff brings this suit on behalf of her two minor children, ages eleven and thirteen, seeking specific performance of a provision in a written separation agreement by which defendant, her former husband and the father of the children, agreed to pay support for them. The determinative question is whether, after the enactment of the Family Court Act of 1971, 10 Del.C. § 901 etc. (58 L.Del.Ch. 114, 116), this Court has subject matter jurisdiction...

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