GA 19-6-4 - GA 19-6-4

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Former Code 1933, §§ 30-210, 30-211, 30-212 and 30-213 plainly provided for alimony which may be sought in the wife's (now either spouse's) suit for divorce, her suit for alimony alone, or in a suit by the husband for divorce. The wife's right cannot be defeated by a failure of the husband to obtain a divorce. Ridgeway v. Ridgeway, 224 Ga. 310 , 161 S.E.2d 866 (1968). Alimony not mandatory. - Former Code 1933, §§ 30-207, 30-209, and 30-210 did not declare that alimony must or shall be granted in any case. Brown v. Brown, 230 Ga. 566 , 198 S.E.2d 182 (1973). Alimony in any form is simply support for the wife (now either spouse), supplied by the husband, and it rests entirely upon the law requiring the husband to support his wife. It makes no difference what this support i...