CARPENTER v. CARPENTER


208 A.D.2d 882 (1994)

617 N.Y.S.2d 903

Carleen N. Carpenter, Respondent, v. Dennis M. Carpenter, Appellant

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

October 31, 1994


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff carried her burden of presenting evidence at the hearing sufficient to establish that during her and the defendant's two brief sojourns in Pennsylvania — for a week in 1969 and for four days in 1989, according to the plaintiff's testimony — a common-law marriage valid under the laws of Pennsylvania came into existence, which was deserving of recognition under principles of comity in New York...

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