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(This article was originally published in The Daily Record, Baltimore, another Dolan Media publication).
A husband who sued his wife for limited divorce based on constructive desertion is entitled to pursue that action - and seek custody and visitation of the parties' children - even though the couple continued to live together, the Maryland Court of Appeals has held.
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... the validity of a method used by Maryland, in the administration of an aspect of its public ... to make effective use of the constructive programs which the bill would establish.' H.R. Rep... regulation serves as a disincentive to desertion does not stand scrutiny. . Footnote 23 Likewise, t...
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Criminal Procedure
Custodial interrogation
...CASE: Maryland v. Dick, No. 2651, September Term, 2007 (filed Sep... Absolute Divorce on the ground of constructive desertion. Wayne filed an Answer and Counter-Compl...
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... which the divorce was granted, viz., desertion by the wife, was false. The referee sustained the ... against a nonresident merely upon constructive service, and, therefore, without acquiring jurisdi... c embraces the law of Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and New Hampshire....
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... Nebraska, the District of Columbia, and Maryland; LL.B. 1940, University of Omaha Law School; Capta...It will be noted here that desertion was a bar to benefits. It will be further noted th... as "short desertion" or sometimes "constructive desertion." This form of desertion is primarily of...
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...Edward C. Mazique, on grounds of desertion. The trial court further awarded Dr. Mazique sole ... by her husband and thus establish constructive desertion, but this was excluded on the ground tha... sole ownership of a beach residence in Maryland, approximately $11,000 to pay the first trust on t...
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MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS
Administrative Law
... Absolute Divorce on the ground of constructive desertion. Wayne filed an Answer and Counter-Compl...
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COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS
Criminal Law
...In Pendergast, the leading case in Maryland with respect to Article 27, [section]561A, the pre... or limited divorce on the ground of constructive desertion. Anthony answered and filed a counter-co...
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... of malice is in no way formal or constructive, and there is no intimation that Coke sees a conne...), Louisiana (until the 1850s), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire,...at 101 (desertion: embezzling the king's arms); id. at 128 (falsifyi...
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A husband who sued his wife for limited divorce based on constructive desertion is entitled to pursue that action - and to seek custody and visitation of the parties' children - even though the couple continued to live together under the same roof, the Court of Appeals has held.
The top court concluded that the living arrangements of Robert M. Ricketts Jr. and Mary C. Ricketts did not prevent Robert's divorce, custody and visitation complaint from going forward. The parties were married in 1981 and had three children, but at some point, the complaint alleged, the relationship began to break down.
... present case was a 1929 amendment to the Maryland Code stating that a court may award the guardiansh...