DEBRA ALLEVA, res-ap, v. ROBERT ALLEVA, APPELLANT-res

DEBRA ALLEVA, res-ap, v. ROBERT ALLEVA, APPELLANT-res — (INDEX NO. 27353/09)In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (LaSalle, J.), dated December 14, 2011, as, upon a decision of the same court dated August 1, 2011, made after a nonjury trial, awarded her maintenance in the sum of only $750 per week, failed to require the defendant to maintain health insurance for her, failed to require the defendant to maintain a policy of life insurance to secure his maintenance obligations, failed to require the defendant to elect a pre-retirement death benefit and/or joint survivor option with respect to certain pension plans, allocated certain marital credit card debt equally between the parties, allocated the marital assets equally between the parties, awarded her an attorney’s fee in the sum of only $10,000 and directed the payment of that fee within 18 months after the date of service of the decision, and failed to direct the release to her of certain monies from an escrow account held by the defendant’s former attorney, and the defendant cross-appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of the same judgment as awarded the plaintiff maintenance for a period of 15 years.

ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, (1) by deleting the provision thereof awarding the plaintiff maintenance for a period of 15 years, and substituting therefor a provision awarding the plaintiff maintenance until she is eligible for full Social Security benefits or remarries, and (2) by adding a provision thereto directing the defendant to maintain a life insurance policy for the benefit of the plaintiff until payment of maintenance is completed in an amount sufficient to secure the maintenance obligation; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed and cross-appealed from, with costs to the defendant, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, for a determination as to the distribution of the funds in the escrow account held by the defendant’s former attorney, and for the entry of an appropriate amended judgment thereafter.