Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-01 | Page 3 | "Alimony Club" Ceases to Exist

- "ALIMONY CLUB" : es; CEASES TO EXIST NKU" YORK. Auir. 31. Xew York's , , famous "alimony club" passes into his-, his-, 1 "i y at midn ikIU toniplit, and thousands lit,' "f "slnokor" husbands, who fancied them-! them-! ctives immunized from alimony payments I by a sojourn tit the "club" in Ludlow t&r ! v'i.rc''t jail, afrain will faco the possibility I "f impi'isfuiinonl. 0 I T!h '"alimony club" was ma do. pos-i'vi pos-i'vi siiilc by (i law providing that when a man ' fffusod to pny alimony he should be com-, com-, ittih cfi lo ja il f.- a period of not more i?S Han motiths. Thereafter he was immune im-mune from further payments or molesta-l:Dii. molesta-l:Dii. I 'nder an amend men I U the code of g l iv1! pmeedurc, however, effective at mtd- 'l iph t tnnipht . lelinquent husbands may y bf juiled for contimpt of court for every I'aihire to pay installments as ordered by ibe court, lie may be punished for contempt con-tempt time alter time until lie dies or reforms.