Roggenkamp v. Roggenkamp

This is an appeal by the appellant/wife, Bethel S. Roggenkamp, from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Grady, J., presiding) granting the appellee/husband, Matthias A. Roggenkamp, a divorce a vinculo matrimonii.

The parties were married in 1946 at a time when both were officers in the United States Navy. The wife resigned her commission in the Navy and they ultimately took up residence in California. In July 1964 the husband filed suit in California for separate maintenance and the wife filed a cross suit seeking the same relief.

On March 15, 1965, the California court entered an…