Legal Opinion
Buckheit v. Buckheit
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 18, 1970No. 248, September Term, 1970PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This appeal questions the constitutionality of the new ground for divorce established by Chapter 656, Acts of 1969, amending and reenacting Code, Article 16, § 24, and contends that if it is applied at all, it should be prospective only.
The parties were married on March 27, 1954, in Baltimore. The husband deserted the wife on October 27, 1962. They have not lived together since. With that desertion as the ground, the wife filed a suit for alimony, which was awarded.
On July 8, 1969, the husband filed a bill of complaint praying for a divorce on the ground that the parties had lived separate…
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