WIFE v. v. HUSBAND V.

DUFFY, Chancellor.

This is an appeal by a wife from a judgment of divorce based on voluntary separation under 13 Del.C. § 1522(11).

I

In 1957 the General Assembly amended 13 Del.C. § 1522 by adding subsection (11) as a cause of divorce from the bonds of matrimony; it provided for divorce

“When husband and wife have voluntarily lived separate and apart, without any cohabitation for three consecutive years prior to the filing of the divorce action and such separation is beyond any reasonable expectation of reconciliation.” 1

This statute adds the no-fault concept to Delaware divorce law, Owens v.…