Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1998

Wood v. Wood

Wood v. Wood
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided December 31, 1998
256 A.D.2d 1242; 682 N.Y.S.2d 788; 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 14440
Wood v. Wood

Opinion of the Court

—Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs in accordance with the following Memorandum: Upon consideration of plaintiffs “reasonable needs and predivorce standard of living in the context of the enumerated statutory factors * * * (see, Domestic Relations Law § 236 [B] [6] [a] [1]-[11])” (Hartog v Hartog, 85 NY2d 36, 52), we conclude that Supreme Court did not abuse its discretion in awarding plaintiff maintenance of $400 biweekly until defendant’s retirement (see, Boughton v Boughton, 239 AD2d 935). The court, however, should have awarded maintenance retroactive to February 13, 1995, the date of the application therefor (see, Do*1243mestic Relations Law § 236 [B] [6] [a]; Lester v Lester, 237 AD2d 872, 873). We therefore modify the order by providing that maintenance is retroactive to that daté (see, DiSanto v DiSanto, 198 AD2d 838). (Appeals from Order of Supreme Court, Wyoming County, Nenno, J. — Matrimonial.) Present— Green, J. P., Pine, Wisner, Callahan and Boehm, JJ.

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