A Queens judge has granted a Catholic woman’s petition to disinter the remains of her late husband from a plot at a Jewish cemetery so that the couple can be buried in adjoining plots at a nondenominational cemetery.

Supreme Court Justice Howard G. Lane’s decision turned in part on whether the decedent’s “bond of religion” was stronger than his desire to be buried alongside his wife.

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