Giokas v. Giokas
Decision Date | 04 May 2010 |
Citation | 73 A.D.3d 688,900 N.Y.S.2d 370 |
Parties | George GIOKAS, respondent, v. Eugenia GIOKAS, appellant. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
73 A.D.3d 688
George GIOKAS, respondent,
v.
Eugenia GIOKAS, appellant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
May 4, 2010.
England & England, P.C., Centereach, N.Y. (Donna England of counsel), for appellant.
Castrovinci & Mady, Smithtown, N.Y. (Philip J. Castrovinci and Ruth Sovronsky of counsel), for respondent.
PETER B. SKELOS, J.P., JOSEPH COVELLO, RUTH C. BALKIN, and SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.
In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (MacKenzie, J.), entered October 3, 2008, as, upon a decision dated April 17, 2008, and upon a supplemental decision dated May 29, 2008, both made after a nonjury trial, directed the plaintiff to pay her maintenance in the sum of only $500 per week, nontaxable to her, only from April 24, 2008, and continuing until the earliest of her remarriage, whether valid or invalid, her attainment of age 62, or the death of either party, and awarded her only 10% of the value of the plaintiff's business interests.
ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the law, on the facts, and in the exercise of discretion, by deleting the provision thereof awarding the plaintiff maintenance in the sum of $500 per week, nontaxable to her, from April 24, 2008, and continuing until the earliest of her remarriage, whether valid or invalid, her attainment of age 62, or the death of either party, and substituting therefor a provision awarding her maintenance in the sum of $500 per week, nontaxable to her, from April 24, 2008, and continuing until the
"[T]he amount and duration of maintenance is a matter committed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and every case must be determined on its own unique facts"
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