New York Domestic Relations Law Section 142 - Dismissal of complaint in action by next friend to annul a marriage.

  142.    Dismissal  of complaint in action by next friend to annul a
  marriage. Where the next friend of an infant, mentally  retarded  person
  or  mentally  ill  person  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.

Last modified: February 3, 2019