Vanderbilt v. Vanderbilt

This is an action by the plaintiff against her husband for a separation on the grounds of cruelty, abandonment and nonsupport. Defendant interposed, as an affirmative defense constituting a bar to this action, a final decree of absolute divorce which he obtained from planitiff on June 30, 1953, in the State of Nevada. Plaintiff challenged the bona fides of *296defendant’s domicile in Nevada, thereby attacking the validity of that decree. The evidence of the parties was taken in respect thereof and, at the conclusion of that phase of the case, I rendered my decision. (207 Misc. 291.) The decision…