Bierman v. Melandro

OPINION OF THE COURT

Robert E. Pipía, J.

This action was commenced by the plaintiff, attorney Ira Bierman, to recover $9,488.99 plus interest from the defendant, Dennis Melandro, for legal services rendered to the defendant’s wife in a plenary action in Supreme Court to set aside two postnuptial agreements between the defendant and Shivana Melandro, plaintiff’s client. The parties have submitted to the court a stipulation of agreed facts along with written legal arguments.

The relief sought is based on a rarely used legal theory: the common-law doctrine of necessaries.

The underlying procedural…