Legal Opinion
Gotlib v. Ratsutsky
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 14, 1994PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bellacosa, J.
At the heart of this appeal surrounding a multipronged dispute between Lia Ratsutsky and Ilya Gotlib is her suit for divorce from him under New York law. Since she concedes that she was already divorced from him in 1976 in Odessa, The Ukraine, under then-Soviet law, she faces a formidable *699obstacle to obtaining such relief under comity principles respected and applied under New York jurisprudence.
The parties were married in the USSR in 1976 and divorced within a year. The wife initiated that divorce, appeared in court with her husband, and secured the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Feinberg v. FeinbergNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
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