Chayes v. Chayes

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura Visitation-Lewis, J.), entered April 5, 2005, insofar as it confirmed in part and disaffirmed in part a report by a special referee which recommended the signing of plaintiffs proposed court order acceptable for processing, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the report disaffirmed and the complaint dismissed. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.

The parties were married in April 1981. In July 1989, the husband, who at that time was employed as a doctor with the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), instituted an action…