Opinion

Brown v. Brown

  • 235 A.D.2d 383
  • 652 N.Y.S.2d 75
  • 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 208
Court
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Filed
Jan 13, 1997
Status
Published
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 52.3%

The opinion

In a matrimonial action in which the parties were previously divorced, the plaintiff former husband appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Barone, J.), entered January 19, 1996, which denied his motion to amend a Qualified Domestic Relations Order of the same court dated September 23, 1994.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the plaintiff’s motion is granted, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Westchester County, for entry of an amended Qualified Domestic Relations Order in accordance herewith.

As the Supreme Court indicated, the former wife was an equitable interest holder of the former husband’s retirement fund. As an equitable interest holder of property held in a constructive trust (see, Rosenberg v Rosenberg, 215 AD2d 365 ), the former wife must share in any losses or gains attributable to the fiduciary’s investment of that property, unless the investment decisions are imprudent (see, Matter of Lincoln Trust Bank, 223 AD2d 20 ; Matter of Wood, 177 AD2d 161 ). Since there is no claim that the former husband’s investment decisions were imprudent, the Qualified Domestic Relations Order *384 must be amended to allocate equally between the parties the losses and/or gains resulting from those investment decisions while he acted as a fiduciary for the constructive trust. Gold-stein, J. P., Florio, McGinity and Luciano, JJ., concur.

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