Strader v. Strader

— Judgment unanimously affirmed, without costs. Memorandum: In March, 1981, approximately eight months after the effective date of the Equitable Distribution Law, plaintiff husband commenced this action for a conversion divorce premised upon his having lived separate and apart from defendant pursuant to a written separation agreement executed in 1972 (see Domestic Relations Law, § 170, subd [6]). Following a nonjury trial, the court granted plaintiff a divorce; applied the provisions of part B of section 236 of the Domestic Relations Law to award maintenance to defendant in the sum of $30 per…