Legal Opinion
Rosenstiel v. Rosenstiel
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 9, 1965PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*70I. Rosenstiel v. Rosenstiel
Bergan, J.
The defendant wife’s former husband Felix Ernest Kaufman in 1954 obtained a divorce from her in a district court at Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. Plaintiff and defendant were married in New York in 1956 and this action by the husband seeks to annul that marriage on the ground the 1954 divorce is invalid and that, therefore, the defendant wife was incompetent in 1956 to contract a marriage.
In seeking the divorce in Mexico Mr. Kaufman went to El Paso, Texas, where he registered at a motel and the next day crossed the international boundary to Juarez. There he…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Williams v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Caldwell v. CaldwellNew York Court of Appeals · 1948
- Rosenbaum v. RosenbaumNew York Court of Appeals · 1955
- Gould v. . GouldNew York Court of Appeals · 1923
- In re the Accounting of RathscheckNew York Court of Appeals · 1950
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3Cited by49 opinions
- Greschler v. GreschlerNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
- Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon v. Lewis S. RosenstielCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
- Georgia Slessinger v. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
- Spindel v. SpindelDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1968
- Roberts v. RobertsAppellate Court of Illinois · 1967
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