Legal Opinion
In Re Purpura
United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. New York
Decided August 10, 1994No. 1-19-40782PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION DISMISSING CHAPTER 11 CASE
JEROME FELLER, Bankruptcy Judge.
The protagonists in this matter are not strangers to legal fray. Nicholas E. Purpura (“Purpura” or “Debtor”) and Barbara Maida (“Maida”), the Debtor’s former spouse, slugged it out for eight (8) years in a divorce action at various levels of the New York State court system. After exhausting his appellate remedies and still unable to make peace with the equitable distribution awards made in the divorce action, Purpura commenced this Chapter 11 case. Once again, Maida was frustrated in her efforts to realize the cash, stock and…
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