Crookes v. Crookes

POPOVICH, Judge:

This is an appeal from the order dated March 20, 1984, of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, granting a divorce to the plaintiff, Dorothy A. Crookes. We reverse.

*317On April 19, 1982, the plaintiff filed a complaint seeking a divorce from the defendant, James S. Crookes.

The complaint contained a standard notice to defend clause, with a caveat that if the defendant did not file a request for, inter alia, “marital property”, he might “lose the right to claim” it.

The divorce complaint was divided into five counts. The first count alleged that the parties had lived…