McCarthy v. McCarthy

Decision has been reserved pending the efforts of counsel to consummate a separation agreement as the only realistic way to ameliorate the intolerable existing relations of the parties. The court regrets that those efforts have failed; for, today’s decision, which is constrained by the present record, may serve only to aggravate the corroding stalemate between two unhappy, stubborn, money-concerned spouses bitterly bent on nettling each other.

The parties intermarried on June 29, 1941, in a Roman Catholic Church, and became the parents of one child (“ Mary ”) born January 27, 1944. They had…