Court Opinion

ID: 5481232
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 01:56:08.470061+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:36.976087
License: Public Domain

Fuld, J.
(dissenting). I cannot concur in the court’s conclusion that the separation agreement here under consideration violates section 51 of the Domestic Relations Law or, to use the language of the majority opinion, “ the public policy exemplified ” therein. We all recognize that the agreement is not a contract to “ relieve the husband from his liability to support his wife ” (§ 51), and, in my view, it is not one which either alters or dissolves the marriage (§51) or “ has a direct tendency toward dissolving ” it.
Accordingly, I vote to reverse the order of the Appellate Division.
Loughran, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Dye and Froessel, JJ., concur in Per Curiam opinion; Fuld, J., dissents in memorandum.
Order affirmed, etc.