Legal Opinion
Dowd v. Dowd
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 22, 2009PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLahtinen, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Zwack, J.), entered November 8, 2007 in Ulster County, ordering, among other things, maintenance to defendant, upon a decision of the court.
Plaintiff urges on appeal that the maintenance awarded to defendant should be reduced. The parties were married in 1976, separated in 1999 and divorced in 2007. During the lengthy separation, defendant was ostensibly supported, in part, by her live-in boyfriend. Her sporadic employment history involved low-wage jobs. Of their four children, only a 17-year-old daughter remained unemancipated at the time of…
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