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Lombardi v. Lombardi

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 13, 1997
235 A.D.2d 400 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)

Opinion

January 13, 1997.

In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant wife appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Wood, J.), entered September 11, 1995, as, after a hearing, denied her application to set aside a prenuptial agreement between the parties on the grounds, inter alia, of fraud and over-reaching by the husband. Justice Bracken has been substituted for the late Justice Hart ( see, 22 NYCRR 670.1 [c]).

Before: Bracken, J. P., Miller, Ritter and Copertino, JJ.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

We agree with the Supreme Court that the defendant wife, as the party challenging the validity of the prenuptial agreement, failed to sustain her burden of proof that the agreement was the product of fraud, overreaching, or other misconduct by the plaintiff husband ( see, Domestic Relations Law § 236 [B] [3]; Forsberg v Forsberg, 219 AD2d 615; Panossian v Panossian, 172 AD2d 811; Christian v Christian, 42 NY2d 63; Pierce v Pierce, 71 NY 154; 2 Foster, Freed and Brandes, Law and the Family New York § 8.8 [2d ed]). Accordingly, the agreement was properly held enforceable.


Summaries of

Lombardi v. Lombardi

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jan 13, 1997
235 A.D.2d 400 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
Case details for

Lombardi v. Lombardi

Case Details

Full title:EGIDIO LOMBARDI, Respondent, v. MARIA LOMBARDI, Appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jan 13, 1997

Citations

235 A.D.2d 400 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
652 N.Y.S.2d 549

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