Montero v. Cohen

In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Feinman, J.), dated August 3, 2011, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff and his former wife, Nives Montero, married in 1973 in Argentina. They had no children, and, in 2001, the former wife commenced an action for a divorce. In 2005, after several years of litigation, the parties entered into a stipulation of settlement, and they were divorced by a judgment…