PIERCE v. PIERCE


291 A.D.2d 251 (2002)

736 N.Y.S.2d 876

MARTIN PIERCE, Appellant, v. ELIZABETH E.M. PIERCE, Respondent.

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

Decided February 7, 2002.


Plaintiff, who sought, inter alia, visitation with, and/or custody of, his and defendant's yet unborn child in a matrimonial action brought in Supreme Court, New York County, was barred under the doctrines of collateral estoppel and res judicata from relitigating the issue of whether he and defendant had been validly married, the issue having been previously determined by Family Court, Bronx County, in a separate proceeding brought by plaintiff against defendant in which...

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