Plunkett v Plunkett At the hearing in October 1935, of a summons by a wife in respect of arrears of maintenance, due under a maintenance order for 30s per week made by consent in February 1931, the justices made a committal order to be suspended on payment of £50, the justices accepting an offer by the husband’s parents to pay £50 of the arrears and an undertaking to make the husband an allowance of 15s per week, and further varied the original order by reducing the weekly payment ordered from 30s to 15s, “which sum is to be paid by the parents of the complainant (the husband) they having given an undertaking so to do.â€