O'Connor v. O'Connor

Lahtinen, J.P.

Appeal from a judgment and order of the Supreme Court (Nichols, J.), entered June 7, 2013 in Columbia County, which, among other things, granted plaintiffs motion to direct entry of a domestic relations order, for a money judgment pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 244 and for counsel fees.

The parties were married in 1974 and divorced in 2005. In a stipulation that was incorporated but not merged into the judgment of divorce, the parties — both employed in education — set forth the future division of their respective benefits from the New York State Teacher’s Retirement System…