Goldfarb v. Goldfarb
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Mangano, J.
On this appeal, we are asked to examine the effect of current section 5-311 of the General Obligations Law on separation agreements executed before its enactment, i.e., under the former section which was found unconstitutional for impermissibly prohibiting the waiver of spousal support by wives, but not husbands.
*460The parties executed a separation agreement on October 16,1979. In paragraph 3, it provided for a limitation on the husband’s liability to support his wife, viz., that the total amount of support would be $7,000, payable within seven years. At the time…
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