Douglas v. Douglas

This divorce action comes to us on the wife’s appeal (1) from a Family Court decision and decree granting the husband’s petition for an absolute divorce on the ground of willful desertion; and (2) from another decree of that court entered in the same proceeding on the same day adjudging the wife in contempt for violating a restraining order which had earlier issued.1 The provisions of the restraining order as well as those of the contempt decree are detailed in our consideration of the appeal from the contempt adjudication.

THE DIVORCE

The parties were married in Rhode Island in 1956, and…