Custody of children. 1898, No. 42, sec. 18

Court to act on ■ principles of Ecclesiastical Courts. 1867, No. 94, sec. 9

Deoree of separation obtained during absence may be reversed. Ibid, sec. 10

Wife judicially separated considered a feme sole. 1898, N0.42, sec. 26

Court may direct payment of alimony to wife or to her trustee. 1867, No. 94, sec 11

In oases of separation wife to be considered as & feme sole with respect to any property she may aequi'6. Ibid, sec. 12

12. The Court may at any time before final decree, on any application for restitution of conjugal rights, or after final decree, if the respondent shall fail to comply forthwith, upon application for that purpose, make from time to time all such orders and provisions with respect to the custody, maintenance, and education of the 5 children of the petitioner and respondent as might have been made by interim orders during the pending of a trial for judicial separation between the same parties. 13. In all suits and proceedings other than proceedings to dissolve any marriage, the Court shall proceed and act and give 10 relief on principles and rules which, in the opinion of the Court, shall be as nearly as may be conformable to the principles and rules upon which the Ecclesiastical Courts of England have heretofore acted and given relief, but subject to the provisions herein contained and to the rules and orders made by the said Court under the autho- 15 rity of this Act. 14. Any husband or wife upon the application of whose wife or husband, as the case may be, a decree of judicial separation has been pronounced may at any time thereafter present a petition to the Court praying for a reversal of such decree, upon the ground that it 20 was obtained in his or her absence, and that there was reasonable ground for the alleged desertion when desertion was the ground of such decree; and the Court may, on being satisfied of the truth of the allegations of such petition, reverse the decree accordingly, but the reversal thereof shall not prejudice or affect the rights or remedies 25 which any other person would have had in case such reversal had not been decreed in respect of any debts, contracts, or acts of the wife incurred, entered into, or done between the times of the sentence of separation and of the reversal thereof. 15. In every case in which a wife has obtained a decree for 30 judicial separation she shall, until the same shall be reversed or discharged, be considered as a feme sole for any purpose for which a wife who has obtained an order under the provisions of " The Married Women's Property Protection Act, 1880," shall be considered as a feme sole. 35 16. In all cases in which the Court shall make any decree or order for alimony it may direct the same to be paid either to the wife herself or to any trustee on her behalf to be approved by the Court, and may impose any terms or restrictions which to the Court may seem expedient, andmay from time to time appoint a new trustee, or 40 remove any existing trustee thereof, if for any reason it shall appear to the Court expedient so to do. 17. In every case of judicial separation the wife shall from the date of the decree, and whilst the separation shall continue, be considered as a feme sole with respect to property of every description 45 which she may acquire or which may come to or devolve upon her, and such property may be disposed of by her in all respects as a feme sole, and on her decease the same shall, in case she shall die intestate, go as the same would have have gone if her husband had been then dead : Provided that if any such wife shall again cohabit 50 with her husband all such property as she may be entitled to when such cohabitation shall take place shall be held to her separate use,

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