Cohen v. Cohen

The 1938 judgments of annulment were, as the Appellate Division held, insufficient because they did not comply with the requirements of the statute; (Domestic Relations Law, § 7, subd. 5; Cons. Laws, ch. 14) as to care and maintenance of the defendant during life. Those judgments should either have contained definite provisions for the defendant’s care and maintenance throughout her life, regardless of whether she continued to be confined in a State hospital, or they should have contained a grant of leave to defendant to apply, in the future, at the foot thereof for their modification. In…