Rutar v. Rutar

OPINION

Mrs. Rutar (Cvetka) and Mr. Rutar (Marjan) met in Ravne, Yugoslavia, in 1965. At the time, Cvetka was nineteen years old and Marjan was twenty-seven. Both had completed dental technician school, which is the Yugoslavian equivalent of a four-year technical high school in the United States. Marjan worked for eight years as a dental technician in Yugoslavia and then went to Switzerland to receive specialized training. After Cvetka graduated, she worked in Yugoslavia for two years in the same laboratory that employed Marjan before he left for Switzerland.

In 1969, while Marjan was in…