FELT v. FELT


93 A.D.2d 396 (1983)

Elaine Felt, Respondent, v. Irving M. Felt, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 3, 1983


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jamie B. W. Stecher of counsel (Mark H. Alcott with him on the brief; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, attorneys), for appellant.

Patricia Ferrari of counsel (Julia Perles with her on the brief; Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, attorneys), for respondent.

CARRO and KASSAL, JJ., concur with ASCH, J.; KUPFERMAN, J. P., and BLOOM, J., dissent in an opinion by BLOOM, J.


ASCH, J.

The parties to this action were married in 1945 and have two children. In 1973 the defendant husband obtained a divorce decree from plaintiff in the Dominican Republic and thereafter remarried. In 1978 the plaintiff commenced the instant action, seeking inter alia, a judicial declaration that she was the lawful wife of defendant; that the purported judgment of divorce obtained by defendant was null and void; and that the purported marriage...

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