DEERING v. DEERING

[No. 58, September Term, 1981.] [No. 60, September Term, 1981.]

292 Md. 115 (1981)

437 A.2d 883

ROCHELLE K. DEERING v. DONALD A. DEERING MARY J. ANDREWS v. SAMUEL JUSTUS ANDREWS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 58, Jeffrey B. Fisher, with whom were Fisher & Walcek on the brief, for appellant.

No. 58, Allen J. Kruger and C. Philip Nichols, Jr., with whom were Goldman, Nichols, Kovelant, Pedersen, Hurtt & Kruger on the brief, for appellee.

No. 60, Charles W. Ayres, Jr., for appellant.

No. 60, No brief filed for appellee.

The causes were argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.


DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

It has been said that when a marriage begins, it is made in heaven and will last for life. Modern earthly experience, however, has frequently proven otherwise. Thus, when the marital bond is terminated by law, there inevitably arises a profound necessity to determine as between the former partners what is to be the property of each.1 To this end, Maryland's new Property Disposition in Divorce...

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