Legal Opinion
Hansen v. Hansen
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 12, 1996PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs and matter remitted to Supreme Court for further proceedings in accordance with the following Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied defendant’s motion insofar as it sought to vacate a default judgment of divorce. Although courts have adopted a liberal policy of vacating default judgments in matrimonial actions, "it is still incumbent upon the moving defendant to proffer a reasonable excuse for the default and to demonstrate the existence of a meritorious defense” (Walczak v Walczak, 177 AD2d 1045; see also,…
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