Jackson v. Woodner

In the Summer of 1955 rule VIII-a of the Special Term Rules (New York County, Supreme Court) was promulgated by which this part was set up to deal with matrimonial matters. Many well-intentioned persons have been moved in varying degrees to express the hope that this court has been transmuted by this single step into an effective agency for the preservation and strengthening of the institution of marriage. Some — many, unfortunately, unequipped with facts — have waxed almost lyrical on this subject in the press and elsewhere. Would that it were so. Although this has certainly been a move in…