Margulies v. Margulies

Order, Supreme Court, New York County, entered March 12, 1973 is modified on the law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion to strike therefrom those provisions directing defendant’s civil commitment for contempt of court and to substitute therefor a provision that defendant may purge himself of the contempt by paying a sum of $450, representing the fines previously imposed by court orders or, in the alternative, by appearing in and participating in a Jewish ritual divorce, and as so modified, the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements. The parties were divorced in June,…