Rhoad v. Rhoad

Petitioner, Robert D. Rhoad (the husband), sued his wife, Betty C. Rhoad (the wife), on June 15, 1973, in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii on the nonculpatory ground then provided in Maryland Code (1957, 1973 Repl. Vol.) Art. 16, § 24 that the parties had “lived separate and apart without any cohabitation and without interruption for five years.” 1 The chancellor (Fairbanks, J.) found the husband entitled to a divorce. The wife, however, had requested alimony. After first stating that “the fault [lay] with [the wife] insofar as the dissolution of…