Washington v. Janati

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lori S. Sattler, J.), entered March 5, 2013, which denied defendant’s motion to vacate the judgment of annulment entered upon his default and replace it with a judgment of divorce, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant failed to demonstrate a reasonable excuse for his default (see CPLR 5015 [a]; Benson Park Assoc., LLC v Herman, 73 AD3d 464, 465 [1st Dept 2010]). His bare contentions that he did not understand the consequences of the fraud ground in Domestic Relations Law § 140 (e) and that he could not afford an attorney do not constitute…