Case v. Case

This ease presents one of the many variations of factors in which, where parties married and later separated, the husband claims no responsibility for support, on the ground that either his or the petitioner’s divorce from a prior spouse was not valid. Reading the cases in this field reveals the tortuous and tortured process by which courts have sought to uphold the strict rules of law concerning the meaning of a marriage void ab initio by reason of incapacity to marry and have also tried to avoid condoning some of the most glaring abuses of that doctrine against innocent parties. They have…