Clark v. Clark

By final decree entered March 18,1976, the trial court granted Esther Verena Clark an absolute divorce from her husband, William R. Clark, on the ground of voluntary separation for more than one year. Mrs. Clark has appealed from the decree insofar as it awarded Clark custody of their infant children, William Coyd Clark, II, then aged five, and Brian Ramon Clark, then aged three, with the right of reasonable visitation reserved to her.

The Clarks separated on or about February 1, 1974, and on February 8,1974, Mrs. Clark filed her bill of complaint seeking, on the ground of desertion, a divorce…