Nightingale v. Superior Court
This text of 194 P. 1002 (Nightingale v. Superior Court) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering California Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
[1] We entertain no doubt of the power of the court in divorce actions to modify its orders for the payment to the wife of money necessary to enable her to support herself during the pendency of the action, or to enable her to prosecute or defend the action, as the circumstances with regard to necessity change. As to orders for the payment of money for support there has never been any question in this behalf, and there is no difference in principle with relation to money to be paid to her for the purpose of enabling *Page 584 her to pay attorneys. The superior court did not exceed its jurisdiction in this matter.
The application for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Angellotti, C. J., Lennon, J., Wilbur, J., Sloane, J., Lawlor, J., and Olney, J., concurred.
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