Bonem v. Garriott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered June 22, 1988, which denied defendant’s motion to vacate the financial provisions of the parties’ May 1986 separation agreement, is unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The parties were married in 1983. Plaintiff husband was a partner at a large law firm. While he earned a good living, he had substantial outstanding financial liabilities. Defendant wife had given up her full-time editor’s job in 1977 to work part time in her apartment. Her earnings were small and she did not contribute significantly to the financial support of…
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