Legal Opinion
Wiercinski v. Wiercinski
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 2, 1986PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Weiss, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court ordering equitable distribution of the parties’ marital property, entered January 31, 1984 in Tioga County, upon a decision of the court at Trial Term (Fischer, J.), without a jury.
The sole issue raised upon this appeal is whether funds received by defendant as Social Security disability payments should be considered marital property for the purpose of equitable distribution.
The facts are not complicated. After more than 30 years of marriage, the parties were divorced on April 19, 1982. Thereafter, a hearing was held to determine the…
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