Legal Opinion
Lavi v. Lavi
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 1, 1984PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Niehoff, J.
In this case Special Term held that, since the advent of the Equitable Distribution Law, the courts of our State are empowered to grant interim maintenance, support or other ancillary relief in an action which seeks, inter alia, a declaration of nullity of a foreign judgment of divorce which was entered prior to July 19,1980, the effective date of the Equitable Distribution Law (Domestic Relations Law, § 236, part B). We agree.
The facts in this case are most unusual. On December 20, 1968, the parties were married in Queens County, New York. Less than a year…
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- Weintraub v. WeintraubNew York Court of Appeals · 1951
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