Arvantides v. Arvantides

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be modified, with costs, to reinstate the trial court’s determination valuing defendant’s dental practice at $178,500 and, as so modified, it should be affirmed, and the case remitted to Supreme Court for the entry of an amended judgment in accordance with this memorandum.

The Appellate Division’s reliance on the testimony of defendant’s expert in determining the value of defendant’s dental practice was erroneous, and constituted an abuse of discretion, *1034because that witness was admittedly unfamiliar with the criteria for…