Wood v. Wood

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Gomez, J.), entered October 29, 1981, which granted plaintiff’s motion to dismiss defendant’s action for divorce and denied defendant’s cross motion for consolidation, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, to deny plaintiff’s motion to dismiss and grant defendant’s cross motion for consolidation. Plaintiff wife brought an action for divorce against her husband on June 24,1980. Defendant brought a separate action for divorce on March 16, 1981 seeking, inter alia, equitable distribution of the marital property under part B of section 236 of the…