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CRUZ v. SILVA

No. 0550, September Term, 2008.

984 A.2d 295 (2009)

189 Md. App. 196

Guzman CRUZ v. Clemencia Solis SILVA.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 25, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mazin I. Elias (Stephen E. Moss, Deckelbaum, Ogens & Raferty, on brief), Bethesda, for Appellant.

Julia H. Cohen, Washington, DC, for Appellee.

Panel: DAVIS, WOODWARD and CHARLES E. MOYLAN, JR. (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

MOYLAN, J.

The notion of alimony totally disconnected from a divorce, albeit a practice boasting a venerable pedigree, has become at least quaintly anachronistic, if not actually vestigial, in 21st Century Maryland. Just such a self-contained grant of alimony, however, is what we are urged to hold survived the shipwreck of a divorce proceeding in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County on January 9, 2008. Involved is an unusual 300-year-old procedure, the

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