Sorkin v. Sorkin

Plaintiff in this action moves to amend her prayer for relief on a first cause of action in an amended complaint to substitute a plea for a decree of separation rather than for divorce. By way of justification of this somewhat novel *561application, plaintiff states that the defendant since the commencement of the action has 11 treated the plaintiff in a cruel and inhuman manner ’ ’ by his continued cohabitation as husband and wife with another woman by whom he has had a child.

The parties were married more than 30 years ago. Their children are of age, married and self-supporting. There is small…