Thomas v. Thomas

ROWLEY, Judge:

This is a direct appeal from the final Order of the Court en banc dismissing appellant’s exceptions to the trial court’s order denying a divorce under Section 201(d) of the Divorce Code, 23 P.S. § 201(d). Section 201(d)(1) provides that a court may grant a unilateral divorce, if it determines, after notice and hearing, that the parties have lived separate and apart for at least three years and that the parties’ marriage is irretrievably broken. In this case, the trial court determined that appellant, Robert W. Thomas, was not entitled to a divorce under Section 201(d) because…