Fitzpatrick v. Fitzpatrick

MONTEMURO, Judge:

This is a consolidated appeal from a decree of equitable distribution in a complex, and seemingly endless, bifurcated divorce action. The groundwork for the current procedural morass was laid innocuously enough in 1978 when, after four years of marriage, appellee filed a petition for spousal support.

The trial court denied the application on the grounds that appellee had committed adultery which appellant had neither connived at nor condoned, and that appellee had departed the marital residence without adequate reason at law, all of which served to vitiate any claim of…