Meyer v. Meyer

The parties to this proceeding are husband and wife. The wife, then a resident of the United Kingdom, on December 8, 1944, filed a petition for separate support in the Probate Court against the husband, then and now a resident of Brookline. She alleged that the husband “has deserted her; and that she is living apart from her . . . husband for justifiable cause” and specified “that the respondent [the husband] has deserted” her. A decree entered on September 7, 1949, (1) recited that the husband had deserted the wife, and that she was living apart from the husband for justifiable cause, and…