Parker v. Parker
Supreme Court of Mississippi
519 So. 2d 1232 (1988)
Relevant factsFree
After 18 years of marriage marked by the husband's jealousy, threats, physical force, harassment, and own infidelity, which caused the wife's beauty salon business to lose customers and close, the wife sought divorce for cruel and inhuman treatment, but the husband raised recrimination based on the wife's adultery occurring only after their separation, and the trial court denied her divorce petition on that basis.
IssueFree
Whether a wife who adequately proved entitlement to divorce for cruel and inhuman treatment could be barred by her husband raising the defense that she committed adultery after they separated.