P.B. v. L.B.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Debra Silber, J.

“[I]n New York State they have a strange law that says you can’t get a divorce unless you can prove adultery. That is weird *187because the Ten Commandments say, ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery/ but New York State says you have to . . . it’s like a toss-up between God and [Governor] Rockefeller.” (Woody Allen.)

In a matter involving a different comedian, whose marriage was also no longer in the “Honeymooners” stage (Gleason v Gleason, 26 NY2d 28 [1970]), Judge Fuld of the New York Court of Appeals, writing for the majority, noted that, in 1966, the New York…