Aronstein

This case presents the narrow issue whether the record supports an order that respondent pay $50 per month for support of appellant from whom respondent was divorced upon the ground of incurable insanity.

The relevant facts disclose an unfortunate series of events. Married on April 14, 1949, appellant within six months became ill with tuberculosis which caused her confinement at the Belmont Sanitarium. Upon her release from the sanitarium in June, 1950, appellant again resumed living with her husband, only to suffer a miscarriage in November, 1950. In turn, this difficulty reactivated appellant’s tubercular condition, and she was sent to the National Jewish Hospital at Denver, Colorado. While there, appellant became mentally ill; she was then transferred to Kaiser Hospital in Vallejo, California. On February 13, 1952, the Superior Court for the County of Solano committed appellant to the State Hospital for the Insane at Napa, California.

Respondent obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce from appellant on the ground of incurable insanity on September 26, 1955. The final decree, entered October 8, 1956, provided that respondent pay $30 per month to the Department of Mental…