GENOVESE v. GENOVESE


261 A.D.2d 437 (1999)

687 N.Y.S.2d 299

SAM GENOVESE, Also Known as SEBASTIANO GENOVESE, Respondent, v. MERCEDES GENOVESE, Appellant.

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

Decided May 10, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the complaint is dismissed.

The Supreme Court improperly granted the plaintiff husband a divorce on the ground of constructive abandonment. The testimony of the plaintiff husband was legally insufficient to establish that the defendant wife unjustifiably refused to fulfill the basic obligations arising from the marriage contract and that the abandonment continued for at least one year prior to the...

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