
Quoting
pg1067
Sigh....
If I were you, I'd think long and hard about filing in NY since a court in NY can handle all of the outstanding issues re property division, custody, visitation, support, etc. The only thing a CA court can do is terminate the marriage and enter a child support order (and, as noted in one of the prior responses, NY still has archaic and discriminatory laws that require divorced parents to provide support for their kids well into adulthood (where parents who are married have no duty to support adult children)).