Section 243. Security for payments by defendant in action for divorce, separation or annulment; sequestration

Where a judgment rendered or  an
  order  made  in  an  action  in  this  state  for divorce, separation or
  annulment, or for a declaration of nullity of  a  void  marriage,  or  a
  judgment  rendered  in another state for divorce upon any of the grounds
  provided in  section  one  hundred  seventy  of  this  chapter,  or  for
  separation  or  separate  support  and maintenance for any of the causes
  specified in section two hundred, or  for  relief,  however  designated,
  granted  upon grounds which in this state would be grounds for annulment
  of marriage or for a declaration of nullity of  a  void  marriage,  upon
  which  an  action  has  been brought in this state and judgment rendered
  therein, requires a spouse to provide for the education  or  maintenance
  of  any  of the children of a marriage, or for the support of his or her
  spouse, the court, in its discretion, also may direct  the  spouse  from
  whom  maintenance  or  support is sought to give reasonable security, in
  such a manner and within such a  time  as  it  thinks  proper,  for  the
  payment,  from  time  to  time,  of  the sums of money required for that
  purpose. If he or she fails to give the security, or to make any payment
  required by the terms of such  a  judgment  or  order,  whether  or  not
  security  has  been  given  therefor, or to pay any sum of money for the
  support and maintenance of the children or the support  and  maintenance
  of the spouse during the pendency of the action, or for counsel fees and
  expenses  which he or she is required to pay by a judgment or order, the
  court may cause his or her personal property and the rents  and  profits
  of  his  or  her  real  property  to  be  sequestered, and may appoint a
  receiver  thereof.  The  rents  and  profits  and  other   property   so
  sequestered  may  be  applied, from time to time, under the direction of
  the court, to the payment of any of the sums of money specified in  this
  section,  as  justice requires; and if the same shall be insufficient to
  pay the sums of  money  required,  the  court,  on  application  of  the
  receiver,  may  direct the mortgage or sale of such real property by the
  receiver,  under  such  terms  and  conditions  as  it  may   prescribe,
  sufficient to pay such sums.