Legal Opinion
Ae Ran Kang v. Hyung Kook Kim
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 16, 2014No. 13245 153187/13PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered on or about January 10, 2014, which, insofar as appealed from, denied the motion of defendant Hyung Kook Kim to dismiss the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The subject action is not a matrimonial action and is thus not barred by the parties’ matrimonial action in South Korea. Nor is there a conflict of laws presented.
Supreme Court properly exercised its discretion in finding that New York was a proper forum and determined that defendant failed to meet his burden to dismiss the action on inconvenient forum…
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- Don v. SingerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
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