Opinion
10591 Index 301005/16
12-17-2019
Anthony VARRIANO, Plaintiff–Respondent, v. Maria Proietti VARRIANO, Defendant–Appellant.
Maria Proietti Varriano, appellant pro se.
Maria Proietti Varriano, appellant pro se.
Gische, J.P., Mazzarelli, Singh, Moulton, JJ.
Judgment of divorce, Supreme Court, New York County (Tandra Dawson, J.), entered June 8, 2018, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the judgment vacated, and the matter remanded for entry of a judgment consistent with this decision.
Under the circumstances presented, the judgment of divorce should have included a reservation of defendant's rights as to an interspousal tort action that was proceeding simultaneously in Supreme Court, Bronx County (see Xiao Yang Chen v. Fischer, 6 N.Y.3d 94, 102, 810 N.Y.S.2d 96, 843 N.E.2d 723 [2005] ).