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The Laws of New York
Consolidated Laws of New York
CHAPTER 14
Domestic Relations
ARTICLE 9
Action to Annul a Marriage or Declare It Void
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SECTION 142
Dismissal of complaint in action by next friend to annul a marriage
Domestic Relations (DOM) CHAPTER 14, ARTICLE 9
§ 142. Dismissal of complaint in action by next friend to annul a
marriage. Where the next friend of an infant, person with a
developmental disability or person with a mental illness maintains an
action annulling a marriage, the court may dismiss the complaint if
justice so requires, although, in a like case, the party to the
marriage, if plaintiff, would be entitled to judgment.