Brabaw v. Brabaw

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court ordering equitable distribution of the parties’ marital property, entered November 23, 1983 in St. Lawrence County, upon a decision and supplemental decision of the court at Trial Term (Harvey, J.), without a jury.

This separation action was commenced on or about July 9, 1981. The parties had separated at least three times and on one occasion, May 11, 1981, executed and acknowledged a quitclaim deed (erroneously characterized by plaintiff as a warranty deed) which was recorded on August 5, 1981. The deed, which conveyed to plaintiff four parcels of…