Butler v. Butler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bracken, J.
The principal question presented on this appeal is: How should a court distribute an asset which was acquired, and which has significantly increased in value during a marriage, where the asset in question was originally acquired in exchange for unequal amounts of each spouse’s separate property? In light of the malleability of the Equitable Distribution Law (Domestic Relations Law § 236 [B]), we conclude that the answer to this question cannot be reduced to any strict mathematical formula, but generally rests in the discretion of the trial court and will depend…
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