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Unhappy Matrimony: NY Divorce Law
By NAHAL TOOSI
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chana and Simon Taub can't stand each other.
He claims she is a gold-digging liar. She claims he abused her. Things got so nasty during their divorce case that a court-ordered wall was put up in the feuding spouses' Brooklyn house to keep them apart.
It would seem like an open-and-shut divorce case, with no shortage of reasons to justify ending the marriage once and for all. But it is never that easy in New York, where you can get just about anything except a fast, blameless divorce.
New York is the only state that won't allow the speedy dissolution of a marriage without proof that one spouse is somehow at fault, experts say. Adultery is sufficient grounds, but irreconcilable differences are not. "He beats me" (with proof) works, but "We grew apart" doesn't cut it.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DIVORCE_IN_NY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
By NAHAL TOOSI
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chana and Simon Taub can't stand each other.
He claims she is a gold-digging liar. She claims he abused her. Things got so nasty during their divorce case that a court-ordered wall was put up in the feuding spouses' Brooklyn house to keep them apart.
It would seem like an open-and-shut divorce case, with no shortage of reasons to justify ending the marriage once and for all. But it is never that easy in New York, where you can get just about anything except a fast, blameless divorce.
New York is the only state that won't allow the speedy dissolution of a marriage without proof that one spouse is somehow at fault, experts say. Adultery is sufficient grounds, but irreconcilable differences are not. "He beats me" (with proof) works, but "We grew apart" doesn't cut it.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DIVORCE_IN_NY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
