Ackerman v. Ackerman
This text of 45 A.D.2d 856 (Ackerman v. Ackerman) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
In an action for the partition of real property, plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, dated March 28, 1973, which granted defendant’s motion (I) to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action and (2) to cancel plaintiff’s notice of pendency of action. Order affirmed, with $20 costs and disbursements. We have been advised that, in a separate action, defendant has obtained a judgment declaring that she is still the lawful wife of plaintiff. Under these circumstances the plaintiff is not in any event entitled to partition. Had defendant not procured such a judgment we would nevertheless have affirmed the dismissal of the complaint, as we continue to adhere to our view that a partition action may not be brought by a tenant by the entirety who procured a foreign ex parte divorce. Such a divorce does not abrogate the property rights which form an economic incident of the marriage (Anello v. Anello, 22 A D 2d 694; Rodriguez v. Rodriguez, 40 A D 2d 531). Cohalan, Christ, Brennan and Benjamin, JJ., concur; Shapiro, Acting P. J., concurs in the result on the ground first stated in the foregoing memorandum and concurs in the second ground stated under constraint of Anello v. Anello (22 A D 2d 694) and Rodriguez v. Rodriguez (40 AD 2d 531). [78 Misc 2d 1.]
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45 A.D.2d 856, 358 N.Y.S.2d 535, 1974 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4389, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/ackerman-v-ackerman-nyappdiv-1974.