Needham v. Needham

—Judgment, Supreme *255Court, New York County (Walter Tolub, J.), entered April 16, 1999, inter alia, equitably distributing the parties’ marital property, arranging custody of the parties’ children, and directing plaintiff to pay defendant $25,000 in counsel fees for willful failure to disclose financial information, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Assuming, as plaintiff claims, that most of the stock constituting the primary marital asset was obtained either prior to the marriage or by way of a gift, it remains that its increase in value was attributable to his efforts as a director of and…