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GLEASON v. GLEASON

26 N.Y.2d 28 (1970)

Jackie Gleason, Appellant, v. Genevieve Gleason, Respondent. Eli Goldstein, Appellant, v. Beatrice Goldstein, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided January 21, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Green, Shirley Fingerhood and Veronika Kraft for appellant in first above-entitled case.

Vincent J. Malone, Angelo A. Maurino, Thomas F. Tivnan and Peter J. Kiernan for respondent in first above-entitled case.

Paul J. Goldberg and Lewis Becker for appellant in second above-entitled case.

Irving I. Erdheim, Leonard C. Shalleck, Michael F. Erdheim and Milton P. Falk for respondent in second above-entitled case.

Judges BERGAN, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON concur with Chief Judge FULD; Judges BURKE and SCILEPPI dissent and vote to affirm on the prevailing and concurring opinions at the Appellate Division.

Chief Judge FULD.

In 1966, the Legislature repealed this State's ancient divorce laws — which for almost 200 years had sanctioned divorce solely for adultery — and enacted the Divorce Reform Law (L. 1966, ch. 254, eff. Sept. 1, 1967) authorizing divorce on other grounds (Domestic Relations Law, § 170). In addition to four grounds based on "fault," new section 170 of the Domestic Relations Law...

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