Epstein v. Epstein

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marjory Fields, J.), entered September 19, 2000, inter alia, distributing the parties’ marital property, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The engagement ring given by the husband to the wife was a gift and is therefore her separate property. The marriage turned a gift that was conditional into one that was unconditional. The husband’s claim that the trial court failed to distribute the wife’s jewelry overlooks the paragraph of the judgment distributing “other items of personal property located in the marital apartment,” of which the wife’s jewelry…