DeRaay v. DeRaay’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The parties were married in New York, September .3, 1929, and have remained residents of this State. There is an infant daughter, issue of the marriage. On March 26, 1936, the defendant is alleged to have wrongfully deserted the plaintiff. On July 17, 1936, the parties entered into a separation agreement providing for the custody of the child and for the payment of $87.50 per week to the plaintiff ‘ so long as she shall remain alive or until she remarries.’ Summarized, the gravamen of the complaint is as follows: At numerous times the defendant sought to induce and coerce the plaintiff into bringing an action against him for divorce and, if she refused, he threatened to leave the state and to establish a domicile in a foreign state. Defendant also threatened to breach the separation agreement. Defendant further stated that he had established a domicile and residence within the state of New Jersey on advice of counsel and that he intended to bring a suit in the courts of the state of New Jersey against the plaintiff for absolute divorce, and that, if he were unable to establish the existence of a bona fide residence in the state of New Jersey so as to maintain a suit, he would go elsewhere and pretend to establish a residence and domicile, so that he might there bring an action for divorce. . The conclusion is that the threats establish that the defendant is about to perpetrate a fraud upon the courts of this State and courts of foreign jurisdiction for the purposes of carryi”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kahn v. Kahn