Maurer v. Maurer

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Deborah A. Kaplan, J.), entered May 31, 2011, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied plaintiffs motion for consolidation or joint trial of two actions with this divorce action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

We affirm, for the reasons stated by the IAS court. The motion court properly exercised its discretion in denying consolida*418tion of the actions since one action was ready for trial and the others were not (see Dias v Berman, 188 AD2d 331 [1992]). We also note that because the constructive trust action concerns use and…