Melvin v. Melvin

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael L. Katz, J.), entered May 8, 2017, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted plaintiff husband’s cross motion for an order declaring defendant wife judicially estopped from claiming that charitable contributions reported on the parties’ joint income tax returns from 2011 through 2015 constituted marital waste, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The wife argues that charitable contributions totaling approximately $1.5 million, reflected on the parties’ joint tax returns from 2011 through 2015, were made without her…