Blisko v. Blisko
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Harwood, J.
In Gunn v Gunn (143 AD2d 393, 396), we suggested that, *128where the Supreme Court enters judgment denying matrimonial relief, it is premature to fix a durational limit on any maintenance awarded to one spouse payable by the other. We now directly hold that, absent a judgment altering the marital relationship, the Supreme Court is without authority to prospectively limit spousal maintenance.
The plaintiff husband and the defendant wife were married in 1973, shortly after the defendant graduated from high school. Their only child, a daughter, was born in 1975. The…
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