We agree with the IAS Court that plaintiff-wife should be permitted to amend her complaint to allow for proper pleading of a conversion divorce based on the parties' separation agreement (Domestic Relations Law § 170 [6]), since at this juncture the defendant has not established plaintiff's failure to substantially perform all the terms and conditions of the separation agreement necessary to state such a cause of action. Moreover, the IAS Court properly reserved to itself...
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