Conde v. Conde

— Order unanimously reversed, without costs, and matter remitted to Supreme Court, Erie County, for further proceedings, in accordance with the following memorandum: In a judgment granting the parties’ mutual divorce in an action governed by the Equitable Distribution Law (Domestic Relations Law, § 236, part B), the court referred financial matters to a hearing officer. Following hearings by the referee, the court issued its order determining maintenance and distribution of the parties’ property. No report or recommendations of the referee appears in the record. The court made no findings and…