Chabot v. Chabot

This appeal from a divorce decree raises the issue of whether the Superior Court (Gray, J.) erred in denying the plaintiff’s motion to amend her libel to allege fault grounds and in refusing to hear evidence on those grounds at the final divorce hearing. We reverse and remand.

The plaintiff filed a libel for divorce on January 31,1984, alleging irreconcilable differences as the sole ground upon which she sought the divorce. See RSA 458:7-a.

On February 24, 1984, the date of a hearing on her requests for temporary relief, the plaintiff filed an amendment to her libel. The amendment alleged two…