The challenged award of $125 per week for the support and maintenance of the wife was warranted. In the circumstances presented the court did not err in permitting amendment of the answer nine months after it had been served to allow interposition of a counterclaim for divorce. Accordingly, the judgment is affirmed. The amount of the subsequently ordered payroll deduction, however, is excessive. Under the divorce decree the husband was in arrears of $837, not $3,150. Moreover...
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