Jan 27
First no-fault divorce granted
A 79-year-old Long Island woman has been granted what’s believed to be the state’s first contested no-fault divorce.
Gloria Sorrentino wanted out of her 56-year union to Sebastian Sorrentino on the grounds their marriage was “irretrievably broken.”
But her husband wanted to stay hitched, and contended that two of their four kids were pressuring her into dumping him.
Applying the state’s year-old no-fault divorce law, Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice James Quinn sided with the wife after determining at a trial that their marriage was done.
The wife, he noted, testified that they “have not had marital relations in excess of five years, and although they live in the same house, they sleep in separate bedrooms, and never have meals together.”
The Dix Hills couple also “spend no holidays together and share no common friends,” and only the mom socializes with their kids.
And even though she’s in poor health, her hubby “has not taken her to her doctor’s appointments in the last five years, nor has he asked about her health for the past ten years,” the judge wrote.
“The plaintiff testified that she has
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