40 A.D.2d 943 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1972
Judgment unanimously affirmed, without costs. Memorandum: Plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing her complaint, after a trial of this action to partition real property conveyed to the parties as tenants by the entirety on June 26, 1963. She obtained a decree of divorce in Mexico on February 28, 1968, without the appearance ■ of the defendant in the action either in person or by an attorney, and she remarried on April 5, 1968. She does not question the trial court’s finding that the Mexican divorce is invalid but contends that the marital status of the parties was terminated by her remarriage and by defendant’s conduct in residing at the property with a woman held out by him to be his wife although they had never entered into a ceremonial marriage. Without consent of both parties a tenancy by the entirety can only- be destroyed hy the