Flood v. Flood

I

This appeal first calls upon us to decide whether an adulterous 1 wife may be awarded alimony 2 upon the grant to an adulterous husband of a divorce a vinculo matrimonii on a nonculpable ground.

The Law

Courson v. Courson, 213 Md. 183, concerned an act of adultery by a wife who was living separate and apart from her husband by virtue of a divorce a mensa et thoro. A majority of the Court, over the vigorous dissent of two of its members, said flatly, at 188: “We hold the proper rule, supported by reason and authority, is that when a wife, who is living separate and apart from her husband due to…