Carr v. Burgess

EPSTEIN, P.J.F.P.

This matter was remanded by the New Jersey Supreme Court for this court to determine the appropriate share of the marital estate which should be awarded to the plaintiff. The opinion of the Supreme Court, Carr v. Carr, 120 N.J. 336, 576 A.2d 872 (1990) contains the factual circumstances of this case through August 1987. Briefly, the plaintiff-wife married the defendant-husband in 1966. The defendant left plaintiff in 1983. Plaintiff filed for divorce in July 1984. Defendant died in 1987. He was survived by the plaintiff and by four children of his previous marriage.

The estate…