Court Opinion

ID: 9747365
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 15:12:57.563456+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:55:35.783633
License: Public Domain

SPAETH, President Judge,
concurring:
I agree that the trial court had jurisdiction. I write separately to note that the Divorce Code, 23 P.S. § 201(d)(1), requires only that “the parties have lived separate and apart for a period of at least three years, and that the marriage [be] irretrievably broken” at the time the complaint is filed. “Separate and apart” is defined as “[c]omplete cessation of any and all cohabitation.” 23 P.S. § 104. Here, it is not contested that both the “separate and apart for .. three years” requirement and the “irretrievably broken” requirement are satisfied. There is no requirement in the Code that the marriage have been irretrievably broken for three years prior to the filing of the complaint; and I find no basis for reading such a require*448ment into the Code. I therefore concur in affirming the order of the trial court.