Andrew T. v. Yana T.

*1040OPINION OF THE COURT

Matthew F. Cooper, J.

This is yet another case that shows how New York’s inexcusable failure to allow no-fault divorce is destructive both to individual litigants and to our legal system as a whole. Much has been written before about the toll that is taken on the parties, the parties’ children and on the court itself in contested divorce proceedings where “grounds contests” can rage on for months or even years.1 But even in the context of uncontested divorce proceedings — where both spouses want to end their marriage on agreed upon terms — the lack of a true no-fault basis…