Word: divorcee
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For 14 months, thousands of New Yorkers have nervously pondered a personal though international question: Is a Mexican divorce valid? In the now famous case of Rosenstiel v. Rosenstiel, a state court last year answered with a shattering no-thus endangering all New Yorkers who remarried after getting Mexican divorces...
By virtue of laws going back 178 years, New York is the only state that recognizes only one ground for divorce: adultery proved by third-party testimony. Couples determined to divorce often resort to staged infidelity, while those who can afford to, get divorces in other states. In theory, U.S...
Sixty-Minute Split. For divorce-bound New Yorkers, Mexico offered advantages. A Mexican divorce takes one day and roughly $500 (v. $3,000 in Reno), including jet fare to El Paso and cab fare across the border to Juárez. The only real requirement is the mutual consent of...
In New York two years later, the ex-Mrs. Kaufmann married Lewis S. Rosenstiel, aging, multimillionaire boss of Schenley Industries. Later, the marriage soured. With a huge fortune at stake, the Rosenstiels began fighting in court over his contention that her Mexican divorce was invalid, thus annulling their marriage and...
Balanced Public Policy. In upholding her appeal from that decision last week, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that voiding past Mexican divorces would be a rank injustice. By a vote of 4 to 2, however, the court sharply split over future Mexican divorces. The majority upheld them...