Legal Opinion
Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 24, 1957No. 302PublishedCited by 333 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., petitioner, and Patricia Vanderbilt, respondent, were married in 1948. They separated in 1952 while living in California. The wife moved to New York where she has resided since February 1953. In March of that year the husband filed suit for *417divorce in Nevada. This proceeding culminated, in June 1953, with a decree of final divorce which provided that both husband and wife were “freed and released from the bonds of matrimony and all the duties and obligations thereof . ...” 1 The wife was not served with process in Nevada and did not appear before the divorce court.
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