Byrd v. Byrd

By Judge Randall G. Johnson

This divorce suit is before the court on the plaintiff-husband’s motion for an equitable distribution of the parties’ marital property and on his motion for entry of a final decree. At a hearing on August 24, the wife argued that equitable distribution could not be awarded and a final decree could not be entered because no ground for divorce exists. The court heard the evidence on equitable distribution and the husband’s claimed ground for divorce and took the matter under advisement.

By either party’s account, theirs is an unusual marriage. According to the husband,…