In re Haverly

While petitioner was a resident of New York in 1935 she went to Mexico on a vacation. She had no intention of living permanently in that country, and stayed there about three months. While there she divorced her husband on the ground of incompatibility. The husband was not a resident of Mexico and was not before the court there, but appeared by an attorney. The petitioner remarried in New Jersey later in 1935. Neither the courts in New Jersey nor those in New York recognize the validity of the Mexican judgment since the petitioner had not in fact become a resident of Mexico. The courts of…