37 Misc. 2d 162 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1962
This is an action for separation upon the ground of abandonment and refusal by the defendant to provide for the support and maintenance of the plaintiff and their three-year-old son.
The action was commenced on May 3, 1961, and issue joined on May 23, 1961. The cause was placed upon the calendar for the June 1962 Term after the parties had agreed for the withdrawal of the defendant’s answer and entered into a written agreement of separation, dated February 5, 1962. The defendant’s signature to this agreement was acknowledged on February .23,1962, and the plaintiff’s on March 9,1962.
Said agreement not only provided for the separation of the parties, but for the support of the plaintiff and the support and education of their child whose custody was given to the plaintiff.
It appears that subsequently to the execution of the foregoing agreement the plaintiff herein commenced an action for divorce against the defendant in the Third Civil Court of the District of Bravos, State of Chihuahua, Republic of Mexico. The resulting decree of divorce in favor of the plaintiff recites the fact that she was personally present within the jurisdiction of the divorce irSirtniffTiouiW^ defendant herein (the defendant in the divorce action) appeared by a duly authorized attorney and submitted himself to the jurisdiction of the Mexican court. The -separation agreement, dated February 5,1962, referred to.abo.ve-.was expressly ‘f approved in all its-terms andjmvisions * # * [and I incorporated^ the decree by reference, but shall survive the same. ”
Nevertheless, the plaintiff pressed her action for separation p’endiñgm~EEis court and, on September 17,1962, an inquest was held at which both a certified copy of the Mexican decree dated April 2, 1962, and the agreement of separation therein incorporated, dated February 5,1962, were introduced in evidence by the plaintiff.
No decree of separation may be entered under the facts and, cix-ciimsta.uces present iiere. ^ln the first place, the execution of a separation agreement diiriñg~tho periclcixcv of áix "action for ~sepffl^iW]Rrmgs~iuch action tQ_-an-.e.nd-Nolwlthstanding that uo formal order o fMÚKvmlúmianc.e. w_asjxixter e d. (Tobin v. Tobin, 13 Misc 2d 714.) In the second place, the parties have already been duly divorcedTv a court havin&Warisdxctxoix of the subject matter and of the person of both parties. A Mexican decree of
It follows that the plaintiff’s complaint for a separation must be and is dismissed.