Dooley v. Dooley

In this appeal we are called upon to decide whether the trial court erred in denying spousal support to Phyllis Marie Wertz Dooley (wife) and in awarding custody of a seven-year-old son to Thurman Wayne Dooley (husband) on the ground of wife’s adultery. The wife challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the charge of adultery.

The parties were married in Chesterfield, South Carolina, on October 11, 1970. The wife had been married twice previously, and had three children from those unions, two children by the first marriage who were in the custody of their father, and one child by…