Silverman v. Silverman

OPINION OF THE COURT

David B. Saxe, J.

From the béginning, this action has been driven by two competing concerns: the husband’s desire to obtain an immediate divorce without the need to await final determination of all the ancillary financial issues, and the wife’s equally fervent belief that the husband should not be permitted to obtain a *401divorce until a judgment determines all of the existing financial issues.

To this end, a number of strategies and counterstrategies have ensued.

In August 1994 Jeffrey Silverman initially served Joy Silver-man with papers commencing an action for divorce in the…