Bly v Bly - [1952] NZLR 127

Divorce and Matrimonial Causes — Separation (as a Ground of Divorce) — Husband's Petition — Ground of Order Husband's Wilful Failure to Maintain — Duty of Court to ascertain if Separation imposed by Order due to "wrongful act or conduct of the petitioner" — Court, in going behind Order, to look further than Ground whereon Order made — Duty to take Realistic View of Circumstances and Relations of Parties to ascertain Cause or Causes to which Separation Due — "Wrongful act or conduct" — Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1928, ss 10 (j), 18.