1950_DIVORCE_ORDINANCE — Page 31

Divorce.

I, A. B. of

FORM 21.

ANSWER TO PETITION FOR ALIMONY.

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the above-named respondent, in answer to the Petition for alimony, pending the suit of C. B. make oath and say as follows-

1. In answer to the first paragraph of the said petition, I say that I have for the last

years carried on the business

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and that, from such business, I have derived a net annual income of $ but not less than $

$

2. In answer to the second paragraph of the said petition, I say that I am possessed of plate, furniture, linen and other chattels and effects at my said house

aforesaid, of the value of but as I verily believe of no larger value. And I say that a portion of the said plate, furniture and other chattels and effects of the value of $

belonged to my said wife before our marriage, but the remaining portions thereof I have since pur- chased with my own moneys. And I say that, save as hereinbefore set forth, I am not possessed of the plate and other effects as alleged in the said paragraph in the said petition, and that I did not acquire the same as in the said petition also mentioned.

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3. I admit that I am entitled under the will of my father, subject to the life interest of my mother therein, to property of the value of $

that is to say, I shall be entitled under my said father's will, upon the death of my mother, to a legacy of $ out of which I shall have to pay my father's executors the sum of the amount of a debt owing by me to his estate, and upon which debt I am now paying interest at the rate of five per cent per annum.

$

4. And, in further answer to the said petition, I say that I have no income whatever, except that derived from my aforesaid business, that such income, since my said wife left me, which she did on the

day of

last, has been considerably diminished, and that such diminution is likely to continue. And I say that out of my said income I have to pay the annual sum of for such interest as aforesaid to my late father's executors and also to support myself and my two eldest children.

$

5. And, in further answer to the said petition, I say that, when my wife left my dwelling-house on the

day of last, she took with her, and has ever since withheld and still with- holds from me, plate, watches, and other effects in the second para- graph of this my answer mentioned, of the value of, as I verily believe, $

at the least; and I also say that, within five days of her departure from my house as aforesaid, my said wife received bills due to me from certain lodgers of mine, amounting in the aggregate to $

and that she has ever since withheld and still withholds from me the same sum.

Sworn, etc.

(Signed) A. B.

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