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[s. 29 cont.]
How to increase alimony.
Court may direct payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee.
Divorce.
modify the order or temporarily suspend the same as to the whole or any part of the money so ordered to be paid, and again revive the order wholly or in part as the court thinks fit.
(4) Where the court has made any such order as is mentioned in subsection (2) or (3), and the court is satisfied that the means of the husband have increased, the court may, if it thinks fit, increase the amount payable under the order.
30. In all cases in which the court makes decree or order for alimony, it may direct the same to be paid either to the wife herself, or to any trustee on her behalf to be approved of by the court, and may impose any terms or restrictions which to the court seem expedient, and may from time to time appoint a new trustee if it appears to the court expedient so to do.
Settlement of the wife's property.
Inquiry into existence of ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlements.
Settlements.
31. (1) When a decree of dissolution of marriage or of judicial separation on account of the adultery of the wife is pronounced, and when the wife is entitled to any property, the court may order such settlement as it thinks reasonable to be made of such property, or any part thereof, for the benefit of the husband or of the children of the marriage, or of both.
(2) Any instrument executed pursuant to any order of the court at the time of or after the pronouncing of a decree of dissolution of marriage or judicial separation shall be deemed valid notwithstanding the existence of the disability of coverture at the time of the execution thereof.
(3) The court may direct that the whole or any part of the damages recovered under section 26 shall be settled for the benefit of the children of the marriage or as a provision for the maintenance of the wife.
32. (1) After a decree absolute for dissolution of marriage or for nullity of marriage, the court may inquire into the existence of ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlements made on the parties whose marriage is the subject of the decree, and may make such orders with reference to the
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