Can a husband who locks his wife out of his home for refusing to allow her to return home from a visit without his consent receive alimony?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jones v. Jones, 1925 CanLII 98 (SK QB):
1879: Howey v. Howey, 27 Gr. 57: A husband locked his wife out in consequence of her going on a visit against his3 orders. Held by Spragge, C, such an act of exclusion and expulsion as entitled her to alimony, when the husband afterwards lived in adulterous intercourse with a woman in his own house in a way that rendered that house an unfit place for the habitation of the wife. It was suggested also that adultery on the part of the husband alone was sufficient ground for alimony.
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