Madireddy v. Madireddy

In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant appeals, and the intervenor separately appeals, by permission, from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Falanga, J.), dated September 9, 2008, which, after a nonjury trial, determined that the plaintiff and the defendant were validly married in India in 1952.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with one bill of costs, and the complaint is dismissed.

*648The defendant correctly contends that a determination as to whether he and the plaintiff were married in a valid Hindu ceremony in India in 1952 improperly involves…