Legal Opinion
Di Russo v. Di Russo
New York Supreme Court
Decided January 24, 1968PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBernard S. Meyer, J.
One of the anomalies in the law of status produced by a peripatetic population in a federal system is the divisible divorce: when a forum with jurisdiction over one of the marital partners grants an ex parte divorce to that partner, its judgment must be given effect everywhere as severing the personal, though not the economic, aspects of the marriage. To that aberration there is now added, as an *841unidentical twin, the mutilated marriage: when a forum with jurisdiction over neither of the marital partners grants a divorce on the personal appearance of the husband and the wife’s appearance by…
2Cases cited51 opinions
- Milliken v. MeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Estin v. EstinSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Sherrer v. SherrerSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- New York Ex Rel. Halvey v. HalveySupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- Riemer v. RiemerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1969
- Rosenstiel v. RosenstielDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1973
- Sullivan v. SullivanAppellate Court of Illinois · 1981
- Frischman v. FrischmanNew York Supreme Court · 1968
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