Sullivan v. Sullivan

The Chancellor granted a husband an absolute divorce on the ground of a voluntary separation of the parties for eighteen months; he denied the wife’s request for a divorce a mensa et thoro (based upon an alleged desertion); he awarded custody of the parties’ six minor children to the wife; and he ordered the husband to pay the wife sixty dollars per week for the children’s support. The wife, alone, has appealed.

The questions posed by the parties are: (1) was there sufficient evidence to justify a decree divorcing the parties on the ground of their having voluntarily lived separate and apart…