Legal Opinion
Mahoney-Buntzman v. Buntzman
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 7, 2009PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Pigott, J.
In this divorce action, we are asked to resolve several equitable distribution issues. For the reasons that follow, we hold that plaintiff wife is not entitled to a 50% credit for payments made during the marriage towards defendant’s maintenance obligation to his first wife nor for payments made towards husband’s student loan, and thus we modify.
The parties were married in New York on September 24, 1993 and have two daughters. Wife has an adult child from a previous relationship. Husband was married once before, and has two adult children from that marriage.…
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