DORKENOO vs. DORKENOO

JUDGMENT OF JIAGGE J. This is an application under section 23 of the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1950.1(1) The wife -petitioner and husband - respondent were married at the Chapel of the University College on the 22nd April, 1955. There are three children to the marriage, Michael 6, John 5 and Kirsty 2 years old. There is one other child Phillipa 8, a daughter of the respondent but not the petitioner, who looks after all four children, Phillipa is at a boarding school but comes home for the holidays and the petitioner pays her fees and transportation. The petitioner complains that the respondent wilfully neglected to provide reasonable maintenance for herself and the children, and applies for an order that the respondent makes to her such payments as may be just for her maintenance and for the maintenance of the children. According to her, she earns an average monthly income of £G75 as a freelance journalist. Her husband is also a freelance journalist and earns, accordi....