Howard v. Howard

OPINION OF THE COURT

Robert S. Rose, J.

In this disposed matrimonial action, the court issued a judg*889ment of divorce based upon the parties’ in-court stipulation of settlement on October 16, 1992. In two places that judgment identified the stipulation as being that “which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof’, but the decretal ordering paragraph stated only that the stipulation “shall survive and not be merged in the judgment of divorce”. There was no incorporation provision, and the “annexed hereto and made a part hereof’ language clearly served only to identify the stipulation and make it…