Brennan v. Brennan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to rescind a separation agreement dated August 4, 1999, and, in effect, to vacate so much of a judgment of divorce dated December 2, 1999, as incorporated the terms of the agreement, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Ross, J.), dated April 18, 2002, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Judicial review of separation agreements is to be exercised sparingly, with a goal of encouraging parties to settle their differences on their own (see Christian v…
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