ACKERMAN v. ACKERMAN

No. 578, Docket 81-7578.

676 F.2d 898 (1982)

Frances ACKERMAN, Appellee, v. Martin S. ACKERMAN, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice Rosenberg, New York City (Frederick E. Sherman, Layton & Sherman, New York City, Laurence D. Rubin, Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin, Beverly Hills, Cal., of counsel), for appellant.

David N. Kaye, Szold & Brandwen, P.C., New York City (Joann M. Calderone, New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before OAKES and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and HAIGHT, District Judge.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

An intransigent husband seeks to avoid his support and property settlement obligations totaling in excess of $1 million. The argument is made that New York must give full faith and credit to a California judgment dismissing with prejudice his former wife's suit for accrued support, and must give no effect to a subsequent English judgment holding that the California judgment was not res judicata and that the husband was liable for both support...

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