Fein v. Fein

The parties were married in 1993 and have three children, born in 1994, 1996, and 1998, respectively. The plaintiff worked as a trader in the financial industry before losing his job in late 2009, and the defendant stayed at home with the children. The plaintiff commenced this action for a divorce and ancillary relief in March 2009, and the matter proceeded to a nonjury trial in June 2011.

Contrary to the defendant’s contentions, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in imputing to the plaintiff an annual income of only $125,000 for the purpose of calculating child…