Cook v. Cook

PARKER, Judge.

Defendant wife contends that the trial court erred in granting her husband an absolute divorce despite her plea in bar of wrongful abandonment, which abandonment had been established by the judgment entered in the prior action between the parties. We do not agree with defendant’s contention and accordingly affirm the judgment appealed from.

Initially, we note that after entry of the judgment appealed from and while this appeal was pending, our General Assembly enacted Chapter 1190 of the 1977 Session Laws, which became effective 16 June 1978. Section 1 of that Act amended G.S.…