Marriage of D.C. v. J.C.

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

Due to the facts in this dissolution matter, the parties will be referred to as David and Joyce. They were married in March 1987, had a child in November 1987, and separated on December 19 followed by David’s filing to dissolve the marriage.

The bulk of the trial, and certainly the majority of space taken in the briefs, relates to Joyce’s contracting venereal or genital warts also known as papilloma virus. This is a form of herpes, a sexually transmitted disease which can be periodically treated, but not cured.

David had this condition in 1983 and 1984, long before he met…