Legal Opinion
Farhadi v. Qureshi
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 24, 2013PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*991In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by judgment entered July 2, 2010, upon the defendant’s default in answering, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Bruno, J), entered September 30, 2011, which denied his motion pursuant to CPLR 5015 (a) to vacate the judgment of divorce.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Although the courts have adopted a liberal policy with respect to vacating defaults in matrimonial actions, it is still incumbent upon a defendant seeking to vacate a default judgment pursuant to CPLR…
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