Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1827 (Bursler v. Bursler)

Alimony allowed without regard to the husbaud’s income alone, the illness of the wife requiring extraordinary expenses.

Upon a petition for an increase of alimony, it appeared that the parties were divorced a mensa et thoro in 1826, on the application of the wife, and 30 dollars a year allowed as alimony ; that she was now afflicted with a disease which rendered her unable to labor for her