In re Alzman

The deputy city clerk of the city of New York, in charge of the marriage license bureau in Brooklyn, has refused to issue petitioner a license to marry. The basis for the refusal, it appears, is that the respondent does not recognize a certain decree of divorce issued in favor of the petitioner by the State of Sonora, Mexico, as binding and entitled to recognition in the State of New York, and that, therefore, he finds the petitioner not competent to enter into the proposed second marriage. The respondent seeks to justify his action in that, since section 15 of the Domestic Relations Law (as…