Librizzi v. Librizzi

OPINION OF THE COURT

Frank P. DeLuca, J.

This is another in the line of cases instituted after the enactment of the Equitable Distribution Law (L 1980, ch 281) wherein a party to a divorce action moves for summary judgment for divorce in favor of his opponent.

Here, the parties to this marriage have been married for a period of approximately 20 years. Plaintiff seeks a judgment of divorce against defendant alleging several grounds therefor, one of which is the alleged abandonment of plaintiff by defendant. In his verified answer defendant denied the allegations of abandonment, he avers, since…