Glendening v. Glendening

MYERS, Associate Judge.

Appellant-wife sought an absolute divorce on the ground of five years’ voluntary separation without cohabitation. The trial court denied the divorce, holding she had failed to prove that the separation, although mutually voluntary in its inception, had continued to be voluntary on the part of ap-pellee-husband for the entire critical five years prescribed by the statute. This appeal followed.

Both parties had had previous marital experience. Appellant had been divorced from her first husband by whom she had three children, now in their teens. Ap-pellee had been divorced…