Braunstein v. Braunstein
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Mollen, P. J.
The instant appeals involve postdivorce proceedings instituted after the parties hereto obtained a bilateral divorce decree in the Kingdom of Sweden. The issues presented by the appeals are twofold; the first issue is whether the parties’ bilateral foreign divorce decree, which resolved the issues of child custody, child support and spousal maintenance, constitutes a bar to the commencement of an action in New York by the plaintiff wife for an equitable distribution award pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 236 (B). A second and related issue is whether that…
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