Legal Opinion
Altman v. Altman
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 5, 1978No. [No. 82, September Term, 1977.]PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLevine, J.
In this appeal we consider the extent to which a spouse may maintain an action for alimony in Maryland following dissolution of the marriage by a foreign ex parte divorce decree. After the Circuit Court for Montgomery County granted appellee's request for permanent alimony, the Court of Special Appeals affirmed in Altman v. Altman, 36 Md. App. 538, 373 A. 2d 1296 (1977). We then granted certiorari and we too shall affirm.
Because the relevant facts are both undisputed and uncomplicated, they may be summarized briefly. The chronology begins with the marriage of the parties in the State of…
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