D v C
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Court | High Court |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1984 |
| Date | 01 January 1984 |
(H.C.)
D
and
C
Capacity - Psychiatric illness -Whether petitioner entitled to decree of nullity on basis of respondent's inability to enter into and sustain normal marriage relationship due to psychiatric illness - Whether marriage void or voidable - Whether petitioner approbated marriage -Whether petitioner estopped by earlier matrimonial proceedings against respondent -Matrimonial Causes and Marriage Law (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1870 (c. 110).
The petitioner and the respondent were married in 1974. In 1978 the respondent was diagnosed as a manic depressive. Evidence was given that the respondent both before and after the marriage had undergone a number of serious mood changes each lasting for a considerable time. In early 1981 the respondent seriously assaulted the petitioner twice and the petitioner obtained a High Court order barring the respondent from the family home. The petitioner took the...
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