Legal Opinion
Sommers v. Sommers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 15, 1994PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs in accordance with the following Memorandum: As limited by his notice of appeal, defendant husband appeals from certain economic provisions of a judgment of divorce. We conclude that the court properly characterized the marital residence as part separate property of plaintiff and part marital property, and did not abuse its discretion in equally distributing the portion of the equity deemed to be marital property. The court properly found the $96,890 down payment on the house to be plaintiff’s separate property…
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