Court Opinion

ID: 9544104
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:52:01.827229+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:11:59.497485
License: Public Domain

WIEAND, Judge,
concurring:
I concur with the majority that the order appealed from is interlocutory and that the instant appeal, therefore, must be quashed. However, I am unable to accept the double standard by which the majority determines that an order denying a wife’s application to proceed under the Divorce Code of 1980 is final and appealable, while an order granting such an application is interlocutory and not appealable by the husband. In my judgment, both orders are interlocutory. Neither order constitutes a “final determination” of the marriage relationship; neither represents a “final determination” of the property rights between the parties; neither puts a party “out of court.” The order is no more than a preliminary determination that one law or the other shall be applied in adjudicating the rights of the parties. Such an order, in my judgment, is interlocutory, and an appeal therefrom will not lie.
HESTER, J., joins in this concurring opinion.