Richardson v. Richardson

By Judge Randall D. Smith

This matter was before the Court on December 5, 2013. The purpose of this hearing was to determine whether or not the parties were validly married as a prerequisite to the determination of issues of equitable distribution and spousal support.

The facts of this case are somewhat out of the ordinary. The parties met in 1980 while both were in New York. They were married in South Carolina in 1982 when the wife was eighteen years old and the husband was nineteen years old. The parties’ first child, Hengel, was bom in 1982; the second child, Bernex, was born in 1985.…