Cowsert v. Cowsert

D. E. Holbrook, Jr., J.

The fundamental issue in this case has to do with the constitutionality of the Michigan "no-fault” divorce statute, MCLA 552.6; MSA 25.86.

The pertinent facts giving rise to the instant appeal involve a divorce action instituted by plaintiff on March 17, 1975. Plaintiffs complaint originally alleged that there had been a breakdown in the marriage relationship to the extent that the objects of matrimony had been destroyed and that there remained no reasonable likelihood that the marriage could be preserved. Such language followed the "no-fault” statute enacted in 1971. On…