Legal Opinion
Wood v. Wood
New York Supreme Court
Decided August 12, 1963PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSamuel C. Coleman, J.
Plaintiff, wife, suing for a decree of separation, faces a counterclaim for annulment, or a separation, if annulment fails. There is also a counterclaim based on property rights which I shall discuss later.
As the plaintiff’s right to a separation rests upon a valid marriage (Fischer v. Fischer, 254 N. Y. 463), I turn to the cause of action for annulment. The parties were married in Prance in 1959 and again in New York, in 1960. But says the husband, neither marriage is valid because a divorce which the wife had obtained from her former husband in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1955 was void and…
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Wood v. WoodAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1964
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