Court of Special Appeals of Maryland January 11, 1979, 384, September Term, 1978 (Vance v. Vance)

Gilbert, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The facts of this case would appear to be more at home in a plot of a “soap opera” than in a court of law because a recitation of them should begin with “Once upon a time____” Yet, there is evidence demonstrating that they are true, and truth, as Lord Byron said, “is always strange; Stranger than fiction.