Burns v. Burns

OPINION OF THE COURT

Edward Greenfield, J.

In this pre-equitable distribution marital dispute, both the husband and the wife claim the right to purchase the co-operative apartment at 500 East 83rd Street which had previously been the marital domicile. The parties, who were married in 1963, moved into the premises at 500 East 83rd Street in 1972 and successive leases were signed for that apartment by the husband, Steven Burns, who was named as the tenant in each and every instrument of lease. One lease ran from 1972 to 1974, the next to 1975 and then to 1978 and then to 1980.

In March of 1978 the…