LOWENSCHUSS v. LOWENSCHUSS


396 Pa.Super. 531 (1990)

579 A.2d 377

Beverly LOWENSCHUSS, Appellant, v. Fred LOWENSCHUSS, Appellee. Beverly LOWENSCHUSS, Appellee, v. Fred LOWENSCHUSS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed July 9, 1990.

Reargument Denied September 11, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Momjian, Philadelphia, for appellant (at 1001) and for appellee (at 1195).

Arthur Lefkoe, Norristown, for appellant (at 1195) and for appellee (at 1001).

Before CIRILLO, President Judge, and BECK and TAMILIA, JJ.


BECK, Judge:

This case requires us to decide the circumstances under which a spouse may be estopped from asserting the invalidity of the other spouse's prior foreign divorce. Appellant wife argues that husband is estopped from asserting the invalidity of her 1964 Alabama divorce. We agree.

The parties entered a ceremonial marriage in 1965. At the time of the marriage husband, an experienced attorney, knew that wife had obtained an Alabama divorce from her...

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