Saltmarsh v. Saltmarsh

In the spring of 1983, the parties to this action, wife and husband, executed a separation agreement, swore by affidavit that there was “an irretrievable breakdown of the marriage,” and on April 4, 1983, received a court order under G. L. c. 208, § 1A (1984 ed.), for what is commonly known as a no-fault divorce. In the normal course, a judgment nisi of divorce would be entered six months after a § 1A order, and that judgment would become absolute in an additional six months.

The wife claims that, after entry of the § 1A order prospectively granting the no-fault divorce, information came to her…