Roberts v. Roberts

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Torraca, J.), entered December 10, 1986 in Sullivan County, which denied defendant’s motion to modify a default judgment of divorce in order to provide for equitable distribution of the parties’ marital property.

Plaintiff and defendant were married in October 1976. The marriage produced two children. During the marriage, the parties purchased a house in Livingston Manor, Sullivan County. Title was held solely in plaintiff’s name, although the money used to purchase the house originated from an inheritance of defendant.

In 1984, defendant left his wife…