Breaking out of a recursion in java

Question

The recursion is sort of a \'divide and conquer\' style, it splits up while getting smaller (Tree data structure), and I want it to break completely if a violation is found,

Answer 1

I was able to move out of all recursive calls using a global variable.

boolean skipRecursivePaths = false;
private callAgain(){

if(callAgain){
  if(getOutCompletely){

    skipRecursivePaths = true;
    }
    if(skipRecursivePaths){
    return;
    }
}