Opinion

Caplan v. Winslett

  • 218 A.D.2d 148
  • 637 N.Y.S.2d 967
  • 1996 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1531
Court
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Filed
Feb 29, 1996
Status
Published
On the bench
Wallach
Cited by
17 cases

"trial court should not rely on the testimony of a legal expert on a question of domestic law, regardless of the witness' vast experience"

How later courts described this case

  • "trial court should not rely on the testimony of a legal expert on a question of domestic law, regardless of the witness' vast experience"

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Ellerin, J. (concuring).

I concur in the result only.

Sullivan, J. P., Rubin and Mazzarelli, JJ., concur with opinion by Wallace, J.; Ellerin, J., concurs in a separate opinion.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County, entered March 7, 1995, affirmed, without costs.

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