A recently dismissed Nassau County divorce action, which was filed by a Garden City woman against her husband of more than 30 years, presented many of the problems that the state’s new “no-fault” divorce law is intended to alleviate.
To establish the grounds of constructive abandonment—that her husband refused to have sex with her for at least one year—the plaintiff-wife had to take the stand in an open courtroom and answer personal and potentially embarrassing questions about her sex life, such as, “When was the last time you had sexual relations with your husband?”
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