Ricketts v. Ricketts

The issues presented by this case are: first, whether a spouse’s complaint for a limited divorce alleging constructive desertion based on lack of marital relations may be maintained when both parties continue to live under the same roof, albeit not in the same bedroom and without cohabitation; and, second, whether, notwithstanding the parties’ continued living under the same roof, 1 a complaint for custody and visitation of the parties’ children may be maintained. We shall hold that, under these circumstances, all of the relief sought by the complaint is available to a complainant and,…