A New York appellate panel has thrown out an equitable-distribution award, holding that the husband's consistent firing of attorneys and failure to appear influenced the trial court to make a distribution extremely favorable to his wife that was not justified in the record. "While defendant's conduct bordered on the contemptuous, the equitable distribution award must still be justified on the record, and should be supported by specific findings," the panel said.
September 04, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A New York appellate panel has thrown out an equitable-distribution award, holding that the husband’s consistent firing of attorneys and failure to appear influenced the trial court to make a distribution extremely favorable to his wife that was not justified in the record.
The court, however, conditioned its vacatur of the award on the retention by the husband, who lives in Singapore, of a New York attorney to counsel him for further proceedings.
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