Clark v. Clark

CLAY, Commissioner.

Both husband and wife appeal from a divorce judgment on several grounds. It is necessary to recite the developments in this somewhat unusual case.

The parties had lived together for almost 20 years until shortly before the husband *747filed suit for divorce. The wife subsequently filed such a suit and the two were consolidated. After substantial proof was taken, the husband proposed, and the parties entered into, a written “Reconciliation Contract”. It provided the parties would attempt to effect a reconciliation and in the event this failed: they “shall be divorced”; the wife…