Gelman v. Gelman

The plaintiff-wife, by this action, seeks a judgment declaring void a Nevada decree of divorce, obtained by the defendant against the plaintiff. It appears that in May of 1953, a judgment of separation was awarded the plaintiff in this State. Thereafter, in July 1953, the husband obtained a Reno divorce. The defendant remarried in Nevada and is at present living in New York State with his second wife. At the conclusion of the trial, I found as fact that the defendant was not a bona fide domiciliary of Nevada; that his stay there was solely for the purpose of obtaining a divorce in that State;…